Subatomic quantification Marcin Wągiel. Volume 6

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wągiel, Marcin, author.

Series:

Open Slavic Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Place of Publication:

Language Science Press 2021

Berlin : Language Science Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The goal of this book is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of parthood and various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural language. The monograph aims to investigate syntactic constructions and lexical categories, e.g., partitives, whole-adjectives, and multipliers, encoding different kinds of part-whole structures both in Slavic and non-Slavic languages. It is envisioned to inspire radical rethinking of the ontology of models accounting for nominal semantics. Specifically, it provides novel evidence for a mereotopological approach to meaning, i.e., a theory of wholes that captures not only parthood but also topological relations holding between parts. This evidence comes from the phenomenon of subatomic quantification, i.e., quantification over parts of referents of concrete count nouns.

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783985540112

398554011X

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5106382