Parts and wholes in semantics / Friederike Moltmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moltmann, Friederike, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Whole and parts (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Moltmann gives a unified account of a range of English & cross linguistic data involving expressions of the notions of 'part' & 'whole'. She presents a new theory of part structures in which the notion of an integrated whole plays a fundamental role.

Contents:

Contents; 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

Notes:

Bibliography: p245_250._ Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772215-6

1-280-45108-4

1-4237-3458-0

0-19-534465-0

1-60256-631-3

OCLC:

191927971