Things and Stuff: The Semantics of the Count-Mass Distinction - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1108932827 ISBN 13: 9781108932820

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Riassunto

With contributions from world-renowned researchers, this book delves into how to best describe the phenomena of mass-count distinction.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Tibor Kiss has been Professor of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum since 1999. He is also co-editor (with Artemis Alexiadou) of Syntax: Theory and Analysis (2015), and wrote a various papers on problems of the syntax-semantics interface, dealing with quantification and word order, prepositions, non-finite complements, and relative clauses.

Francis Jeffry Pelletier has been a joint professor of philosophy, linguistics, and computing science, as well as a Canada Research Chair in cognitive science. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society (Canada). Notable publications include Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems (editor, 1979) and The Generic Book (co-edited with Gregory Carlson, 1995).

Halima Husić is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Linguistics Data Science Lab, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Her work has focused on semantics including event nominals, definiteness, and the semantic effects of case alternation. In her recently completed dissertation, she discusses the countability of abstract nouns.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1108932827
• ISBN 13: 9781108932820
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 442
• Redattore: Kiss Tibor
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