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Iceberg Semantics for Mass Nouns and Count Nouns - A New Framework for Boolean Semantics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Iceberg Semantics for Mass Nouns and Count Nouns - A New Framework for Boolean Semantics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 105
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Iceberg semantics is a new framework of Boolean semantics for mass
nouns and count nouns in which the interpretation of a noun phrase
rises up from a generating base and floats with its base on its
Boolean part set, like an iceberg. The framework is shown to
preserve the attractive features of classical Boolean semantics for
count nouns; the book argues that Iceberg semantics forms a much
better framework for studying mass nouns than the classical theory
does. Iceberg semantics uses its notion of base to develop a
semantic theory of the differences between mass nouns and count
nouns and between different types of mass nouns, in particular
between prototypical mass nouns (here called mess mass nouns) like
water and mud versus object mass nouns (here called neat mass
nouns) like poultry and pottery. The book shows in detail how and
why neat mass nouns pattern semantically both with mess mass nouns
and with count nouns. Iceberg semantics is a compositional theory
and in Iceberg semantics the semantic distinctions defined apply to
noun phrases of any complexity. The book studies in depth the
semantics of classifier noun phrases (like three glasses of wine)
and measure noun phrases (like three liters of wine). The classical
wisdom is that classifier interpretations are count. Recent
literature has argued compellingly that measure interpretations are
mass. The book shows that both connections follow from the basic
architecture of Iceberg semantics. Audience: Scholars and students
in linguistics - in particular semantics, pragmatics, computational
linguistics and syntax - and neighbouring disciplines like logic,
philosophy of language, and cognitive science.
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