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Parts of a Whole

By Lucas Champollion

Parts of a Whole Social Sciences

Parts of a Whole

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This book uses mathematical models of language to explain why there are certain gaps in language: things that we might expect to be able to say but can't. For instance, why can we say I ran for five minutes but not *I ran all the way to the store for five minutes? Why is five pounds of books acceptable, but *five pounds of book not acceptable? What prevents us from saying *sixty degrees of water to express the temperature of the water in a swimming pool when sixty inches of water can express its depth? And why can we not say *all the ants in my kitchen are numerous? The constraints on these constructions involve concepts that are generally studied separately: aspect, plural and mass reference, measurement, and distributivity. In this book, Lucas Champollion provides a unified perspective on these domains, connects them formally within the framework of algebraic semantics and mereology, and uses this connection to transfer insights across unrelated bodies of literature and formulate a single constraint that explains each of the judgments above.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
332
Release Date:
2017-05-23
Publication Date:
2017-05-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198755120
ISBN13:
9780198755128
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
663 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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