Parts and wholes in semantics / Friederike Moltmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moltmann, Friederike.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Whole and parts (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xi, 254 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-250) and index.

ISBN:

019509574X

OCLC:

35068097