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Semantics for counting and measuring
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ISBN: 9781107001275 9780521171823 9780511734830 9781316945858 1316945855 1107001277 9781316944899 1316944891 1316943933 1316944255 1316944573 0511734832 0521171822 1316942015 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The use of numerals in counting differs quite dramatically across languages. Some languages grammaticalise a contrast between count nouns (three cats; three books) vs 'non-count' or mass nouns (milk, mud), marking this distinction in different ways. Others use a system of numeral classifiers, while yet others use a combination of both. This book draws attention to the contrast between counting and measuring, and shows that it is central to our understanding of how we use numerical expressions, classifiers and count nouns in different languages. It reviews some of the more recent major linguistic results in the semantics of numericals, counting and measuring and theories of the mass/count distinction, and presents the author's new research on the topic. The book draws heavily on crosslinguistic research, and presents in-depth case studies of the mass/count distinction and counting and measuring in a number of typologically unrelated languages. It also includes chapters on classifiers, constructions and on adjectival uses of measure phrases.


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Mass terms and model-theoretic semantics
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ISBN: 052125681X Year: 1985 Volume: 42 Publisher: Cambridge

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Lexicology. Semantics --- Philosophy of language --- Semantics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Set theory --- Sémantique --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Logique symbolique et mathématique --- Théorie des ensembles --- Mass nouns --- Noms massiques --- -Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- 801.56 --- Aggregates --- Classes (Mathematics) --- Ensembles (Mathematics) --- Mathematical sets --- Sets (Mathematics) --- Theory of sets --- Mathematics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Algebra of logic --- Logic, Universal --- Mathematical logic --- Symbolic and mathematical logic --- Symbolic logic --- Algebra, Abstract --- Metamathematics --- Syllogism --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Grammar, Comparative --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. --- Semantics. --- Set theory. --- Mass nouns. --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Sémantique --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Logique symbolique et mathématique --- Théorie des ensembles --- Nouns, Mass --- Mass terms --- Non-count nouns --- Quantifiable nouns --- Unbounded nouns --- Uncountable nouns --- Noun --- Number --- Logique mathématique --- Linguistique mathematique --- Linguistique --- Semantique

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