Mass/Count Variation: A Mereological, Two-Dimensional Semantics
We argue that two types of context are central to grounding the semantics for the mass/count distinction. We combine and develop the accounts of Rothstein (2010) and Landman (2011), which emphasize (non-)overlap at a context. We also adopt some parts of Chierchia’s (2010) account which uses precisif...
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| Language: | English |
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New Prairie Press
2016-12-01
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| Series: | The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication |
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| Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/biyclc/vol11/iss1/11 |