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Parts and Wholes in Semantics

Parts and Wholes in Semantics

Moltmann, Friederike

Hardcover

Linguistics

ISBN10: 019509574X
ISBN13: 9780195095746
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 14 1997
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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.

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