Parts and Wholes in Semantics
Author | : Friederike Moltmann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 1997-08-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780195344653 |
ISBN-13 | : 0195344650 |
Rating | : 4/5 (650 Downloads) |
Download or read book Parts and Wholes in Semantics written by Friederike Moltmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. She 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.