23 September 2013

Parts and Wholes in Semantics

Parts and Wholes in Semantics free ebook download
Book Name:Parts and Wholes in Semantics free ebook download
Author:Friederike Moltmann|Publisher:Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019509574X | 272 pages | PDF | 12.25 MB

This book develops a unified account of expressions involving the notions of "part" and "whole " in which principles of the individuation of part structures play a central role. Moltmann presents a range of new empirical generalizations with data from English and a variety of other languages involving plurals, mass nouns, adnominal and adverbial modifiers such as as a whole, together, and alone, nominal and adverbial quanitfiers ranging over parts, and expressions of completion such as completely and partly. He develops a new theory of part structures which differs from traditional mereological theories in that the notion of an integrated whole plays a central role and in that the part structure of an entity is allowed to vary across different situations, perspectives, and dimensions.
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