Mass/Count Variation: A Mereological, Two-Dimensional Semantics

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Sutton, Peter R¹  Filip, Hana¹ 

[1] Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany$$

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DOI  :  10.4148/1944-3676.1110

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: New Prairie Press

【 摘 要 】

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 precisifying contexts. We unite these strands in a two-dimensional semantics that covers a wide range of the puzzling variation data in mass/count lexicalization. Most importantly, it predicts where we should expect to find such variation for some classes of nouns but not for others, and also explains why.

【 授权许可】

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