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DISCOURSE, INTERACTION, AND COMMUNICATION Co-organized by the
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science and the Institute for
Logic, Cognition, Language, and Infonnation (ILCLI) both from the
University of the Basque Country, tlle Fourth International
Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-95) gathered at Donostia -
San Sebastian ti'om May 3 to 6, 1995, with the following as its
main topics: 1. Social Action and Cooperation. 2. Cognitive
Approaches in Discourse Processing: Grammatical and Semantical
Aspects. 3. Models of Infonnation in Communication Systems. 4.
Cognitive Simulation: Scope and Limits. More tllan one hundred
researchers from all over the world exchanged their most recent
contributions to Cognitive Science in an exceptionally fruitful
annosphere. In this volume we include a small though representative
sample of tlle main papers. They all were invited papers except the
one by Peter Juel Henrichsen, a contributed paper tllat merited
tlle IBERDROLA - Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia: Best Paper Award, set up
in ICCS-95 for the first time.
I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of
mass terms are easy to come by. 'Water', 'smoke', 'gold', etc.,
differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from
count terms such as 'man', 'star', 'wastebasket', etc.
Syntactically, it seems, mass terms do, but singular count terms do
not, admit the quantifier phrases 'much', 'an amount of', 'a
little', etc. The typical indefinite article for them is 'some'
(unstressed) , and this article cannot be used with singular count
terms. Count terms, but not mass terms, use the quantifiers 'each',
'every', 'some', 'few', 'many'; and they use 'a(n)' as the
indefinite article. They can, unlike the mass terms, take numerals
as prefixes. Mass terms seem not to have a plural. Semantically,
philo sophers have characterized count terms as denoting (classes
of?) indi vidual objects, whereas what mass terms denote are
cumulative and dissective. (That is, a mass term is supposed to be
true of any sum of things (stuff) it is true of, and true of any
part of anything of which it is true). Pragmatically, it seems that
speakers use count terms when they wish to refer to individual
objects, or when they wish to reidentify a particular already
introduced into discoursc. Given a "space appropriate" to a count
term C, it makes sense to ask how many C's there are in that
space."
DISCOURSE, INTERACTION, AND COMMUNICATION Co-organized by the
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science and the Institute for
Logic, Cognition, Language, and Infonnation (ILCLI) both from the
University of the Basque Country, tlle Fourth International
Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-95) gathered at Donostia -
San Sebastian ti'om May 3 to 6, 1995, with the following as its
main topics: 1. Social Action and Cooperation. 2. Cognitive
Approaches in Discourse Processing: Grammatical and Semantical
Aspects. 3. Models of Infonnation in Communication Systems. 4.
Cognitive Simulation: Scope and Limits. More tllan one hundred
researchers from all over the world exchanged their most recent
contributions to Cognitive Science in an exceptionally fruitful
annosphere. In this volume we include a small though representative
sample of tlle main papers. They all were invited papers except the
one by Peter Juel Henrichsen, a contributed paper tllat merited
tlle IBERDROLA - Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia: Best Paper Award, set up
in ICCS-95 for the first time.
I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of
mass terms are easy to come by. 'Water', 'smoke', 'gold', etc.,
differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from
count terms such as 'man', 'star', 'wastebasket', etc.
Syntactically, it seems, mass terms do, but singular count terms do
not, admit the quantifier phrases 'much', 'an amount of', 'a
little', etc. The typical indefinite article for them is 'some'
(unstressed) , and this article cannot be used with singular count
terms. Count terms, but not mass terms, use the quantifiers 'each',
'every', 'some', 'few', 'many'; and they use 'a(n)' as the
indefinite article. They can, unlike the mass terms, take numerals
as prefixes. Mass terms seem not to have a plural. Semantically,
philo sophers have characterized count terms as denoting (classes
of?) indi vidual objects, whereas what mass terms denote are
cumulative and dissective. (That is, a mass term is supposed to be
true of any sum of things (stuff) it is true of, and true of any
part of anything of which it is true). Pragmatically, it seems that
speakers use count terms when they wish to refer to individual
objects, or when they wish to reidentify a particular already
introduced into discoursc. Given a "space appropriate" to a count
term C, it makes sense to ask how many C's there are in that
space."
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