Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and index.
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.
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This book develops a unified account of expressions involving the notions of "part" and "whole " in which principles of the individuation of part structures play a central role. Moltmann 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 as a 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 mereologic.
Parts and wholes in semantics.
Semantics.
Whole and parts (Philosophy)
Sémantique.
Tout et parties (Philosophie)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Semantics.