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Parts and wholes in semantics /

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 oth...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moltmann, Friederike
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 1 Introduction; 2 The Formal Semantic Framework and the Treatment of Distributivity; 3 Semantic Selection, Part Structures, and Perspectives; 4 Part Structures and Quantification; 5 Metrical and Other Lexical Specifications of Part Structures; 6 Dimensions of Parts and Wholes and the Part Structure of Events; 7 The Mass-Count Distinction for Verbs and Adverbial Quantification over Events; 8 Concluding Remark about Part Structures and Natural Language; Bibliography; Index.