Iceberg Semantics For Mass Nouns And Count Nouns
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Iceberg Semantics For Mass Nouns And Count Nouns
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Author : Fred Landman
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-07-30
Iceberg Semantics For Mass Nouns And Count Nouns written by Fred Landman and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-30 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Countability In Natural Language
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Author : Hana Filip
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-07
Countability In Natural Language written by Hana Filip and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Bringing together an international group of researchers, this innovative volume presents the state-of-the-art in research into countability.
Semantics For Counting And Measuring
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Author : Susan Rothstein
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-06
Semantics For Counting And Measuring written by Susan Rothstein and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The book is an investigation of the semantics of numericals, counting and measuring, and its connection to the mass/count distinction from a theoretical and crosslinguistic perspective. It reviews some recent major linguistic results in these topics, and presents the author's new research including in-depth case studies of a number of typologically unrelated languages.
Things And Stuff
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Author : Tibor Kiss
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-10
Things And Stuff written by Tibor Kiss and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
With contributions from world-renowned researchers, this book delves into how to best describe the phenomena of mass-count distinction.
Themes From Weir A Celebration Of The Philosophy Of Alan Weir
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Author : Adam Rieger
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-05-30
Themes From Weir A Celebration Of The Philosophy Of Alan Weir written by Adam Rieger and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-30 with Science categories.
This book celebrates and explores some philosophical issues raised by the work of Alan Weir, who is Professor Emeritus at the University of Glasgow, having previously held positions at the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Queen’s, Belfast. In a number of areas, Weir has elaborated strikingly original views which involve a radical departure from the mainstream. These include formalism in the philosophy of mathematics, and as well as naïve set theory, with a universal set, and a naïve theory of truth. In contrast to other contemporary defenders of the latter two theories, Weir rejects dialetheism and accepts classical rules for the logical connectives. He avoids contradictions by restricting certain structural inference rules, specifically some generalized versions of transitivity. In addition, Weir has developed radical versions of naturalism and physicalism (partly informed by his work on Quine) and perceptual realism. This collection includes contributions by a distinguished group of philosophers on Weir’s philosophy, as well as a memoir and a new essay on the philosophy of mathematics by Weir himself.
Formal Grammar
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Author : Annie Foret
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-08-05
Formal Grammar written by Annie Foret and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-05 with Mathematics categories.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th and 21st International Conference on Formal Grammar 2015 and 2016, collocated with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information in August 2015/2016. The 19 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 34 submissions. The focus of papers are as follows: Formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics Model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics Logical aspects of linguistic structure Constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar Learnability of formal grammar Integration of stochastic and symbolic models of grammar Foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar and linguistics Mathematical foundations of statistical approaches to linguistic analysis
A Reader S Guide To Classic Papers In Formal Semantics
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Author : Louise McNally
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-08-05
A Reader S Guide To Classic Papers In Formal Semantics written by Louise McNally and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished experts in response to landmark papers in the field. The chapters make the target articles more accessible by providing background, modernizing the notation, providing critical commentary, explaining the afterlife of the proposals, and offering a useful bibliography for further study. The chapters were commissioned by the series editors to mark the 100th volume in the book series Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. The target articles are amongst the most widely read and cited papers up to the end of the 20th century, and cover most of the important subfields of formal semantics. The authors are all prominent researchers in the field, making this volume a valuable addition to the literature for researchers, students, and teachers of formal semantics. Chapter 19 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Language Logic And Computation
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Author : Alexandra Silva
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-07-03
Language Logic And Computation written by Alexandra Silva and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-03 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation, TbiLLC 2017, held in Lagodekhi, Georgia, in September 2017. The volume contains 17 full revised papers presented at the conference from 22 submissions. The aim of this conference series is to bring together researchers from a wide variety of fields in Natural language syntax, Linguistic typology, Language evolution, Logics for artificial intelligence and much more.
Subatomic Quantification
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Author : Marcin Wągiel
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2021
Subatomic Quantification written by Marcin Wągiel and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Concepts Frames And Cascades In Semantics Cognition And Ontology
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Author : Sebastian Löbner
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-05-28
Concepts Frames And Cascades In Semantics Cognition And Ontology written by Sebastian Löbner and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language production and understanding, and other manifestations of cognition. One fundamental question raised in the text is whether requisite knowledge structures can be adequately modeled by means of a uniform representational format, and if so, what exactly is its nature. Frames are a key topic covered which have had a strong impact on the exploration of knowledge representations in artificial intelligence, psychology and linguistics; cascades are a novel development in frame theory. Other key subject areas explored are: concepts and categorization, the experimental investigation of mental representation, as well as cognitive analysis in semantics. This book is of interest to students, researchers, and professionals working on cognition in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.