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Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems
. Ed(S): Pelletier, Francis Jeffry (University Of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
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hardcover. Editor(s): Pelletier, Francis Jeffry (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada). Series: Studies in Linguistics & Philosophy S. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 632.
I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. 'Water', 'smoke', 'gold', etc. , differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from count terms such as 'man', 'star', 'wastebasket', etc. Syntactically, it seems, mass terms do, but singular count terms do not, admit the quantifier phrases 'much', 'an amount of', 'a little', etc. The typical indefinite article for them is 'some' (unstressed)!, and this article cannot be used with singular count terms. Count terms, but not mass terms, use the quantifiers 'each', 'every', 'some', 'few', 'many'; and they use 'a(n)' ... Read more
I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. 'Water', 'smoke', 'gold', etc. , differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from count terms such as 'man', 'star', 'wastebasket', etc. Syntactically, it seems, mass terms do, but singular count terms do not, admit the quantifier phrases 'much', 'an amount of', 'a little', etc. The typical indefinite article for them is 'some' (unstressed)!, and this article cannot be used with singular count terms. Count terms, but not mass terms, use the quantifiers 'each', 'every', 'some', 'few', 'many'; and they use 'a(n)' ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Linguistics & Philosophy S.
Number of Pages
305
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789027709318
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V9789027709318
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