Parts and Wholes in Semantics
Oxford University Press (1997)
| Abstract | This book present a unified semantic theory of expressions involving the notions of "part" and "whole " in which principles of the individuation of part structures play a central role. The book 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 '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. | |||||||||
| Keywords | whole and parts (Philosophy) situations plurals mereology mass-count distinction | |||||||||
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| Call number | P325.M59 1997 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0195154932 | |||||||||
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