Counting and Measuring: a theoretical and crosslinguistic account
In this paper, I show that expressions like two glasses of wine are ambiguous between counting and measuring interpretations, and that each interpretation is associated with a different semantic representation. In each interpretation, glasses has a different function. In the counting interpretation,...
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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/iss1/8 |