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• 1. Proportional Many/Much and Most Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, and Ion Giurgea
• 2 . Quantity Systems and the Count/Mass Distinction Jenny Doetjes
• 3. Counting Aggregates, Groups and Kinds: Countability from the Perspective of a Morphologically Complex Language Scott Grimm, and Mojmir Docekal
• 4. Individuating Matter over Time Manfred Krifka
• 5. Reduplication as Summation Charles Lam
• 6. Iceberg Semantics for Count Nouns and Mass Nouns: How Mass Counts Fred Landman
• 7. Indexical Inference: Counting and Measuring in Context Alice G.B. ter Meulen
• 8. Counting and Measuring and Approximation Susan Rothstein
• 9. The Count/Mass Distinction for Granular Nouns Peter R. Sutton, and Hana Filip
• Index.
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This book focuses on current theoretical and empirical research into countability in the nominal domain, and to a lesser extent in the verbal domain. The presented state-of-the-art studies are situated within compositional semantics combined with the theory of mereology, and draw on a wealth of data, some of which have hitherto been unknown, from a number of typologically distinct languages. Some contributions propose enrichments of classical extensional mereology with topological and temporal notions as well as with type theory and probabilistic models. The book also presents analyses that rely on cutting-edge empirical research (experimental, corpus-based) into meaning in language. It is suitable as a point of departure for original research or material for seminars in semantics, philosophy of language, psycholinguistics and other fields of cognitive science. It is of interest not only to a semanticist, but also to anybody who wishes to gain insights into the contemporary research into countability.
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• 1. Preface
• 2. Abbreviations
• 3. Introduction
• 4. The syntactic structure of the DP 1
• 5. Definite DPs
• 6. Determiners and relative clauses
• 7. Demonstratives and strong quantifiers
• 8. Postnominal possessors
• 9. Prenominal possessors
• 10. Predicative nominal phrases
• 11. Some crosslinguisic perspectives
• 12. References
• 13. Language Index
• 14. Subject Index.
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This monograph presents a new model of the internal syntax of nominal phrases. The model is mainly based on Scandinavian, since with the wide range of variation that Scandinavian displays in the nominal domain, despite the close genetic relationship between the different varieties, Scandinavian is particularly well-suited for explorations into nominal syntax. Among the topics covered are the basic syntactic structure of nominal phrases, definiteness, adjective phrases, possessors, relative clauses, and nominal predicates. The model is however meant to be a tool for analysing the nominal phrases of any language. While the base-generated structure is taken to be universally uniform, the model allows for variation in the feature makeup of individual elements, in the phonological realisation of the features, and in the movements that may or may not apply. Hence, as shown in the final chapter, patterns found in languages outside of Scandinavian can also be accounted for within the model.
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• Preface Gunter Senft
• 1. What do we really know about nominal classification systems? Gunter Senft
• 2. A morphosyntactic typology of classifiers Colette Grinevald
• 3. Unusual classifiers in Tariana Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
• 4. Multiple classifier systems in Akatek (Mayan) Roberto Zavala Maldonado
• 5. Ant, ancestors and medicine: a semantic and pragmatic account of classifier constructions in Arrernte (Central Australia) David P. Wilkins
• 6. Visualizing ability and nominal classifications: an evidence of cultural operation in the agreement rules of Japanese numeral classifiers Kyoko Inoue
• 7. Isolation of units and unification of isolates: the gestalt-functions of classifiers Jurgen Broschart
• 8. Bantu noun class system. Loanword and acquisition evidence of semantic productivity Katherine Demuth
• 9. Gender assignment: a typology and a model Greville G. Corbett and Norman M. Fraser
• 10. Systems of nominal classification - a concluding discussion John Lucy.
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This book addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perceived world is expressed through systems of nominal classification that are grammatically encoded in various languages. A team of leading international scholars reviews the whole spectrum of nominal classification, from gender systems through to numeral classifiers, providing cutting-edge theoretical interpretations and empirical case studies based on a wide range of languages. The volume presents ideas about the problems of classification, advances theory by proposing typological categories and clarifies the interface between anthropological and grammatical work. Focusing on systems that have a conceptual-semantic basis, the contributors reflect and represent approaches in nominal classification research. This invaluable reference work will appeal to linguists, anthropologists and psychologists alike, as well as specialists in languages as diverse as Australian, Amazonian, Mayan and Japanese.
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• List of Figures and Tables Glosses and Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction Tabea Ihsane
• 2 The Rise and Fall of Partitive Markers in Some Germanic Varieties Thomas Strobel and Elvira Glaser
• 3 Bound To Be? Bare and Partitive-Marked Noun Phrases in Romance Languages and the Emergence of Prominence-Conditioned Patterns Hagay Schurr
• 4 Why "Partitive Articles" Do Not Exist in (Old) Spanish David Paul Gerards and Elisabeth Stark
• 5 Predicates of Personal Taste and Pancake Sentences in Brazilian Portuguese and French Fabienne Martin, Janayna Carvalho and Artemis Alexiadou
• 6 Negation, des-Indefinites in French and Bare Nouns across Languages Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin
• 7 Telicity, Specificity, and Complements with a Plural "Partitive Article" in French Tabea Ihsane
• 8 A Protocol for Indefinite Determiners in Italian and Italo-Romance Giuliana Giusti
• 9 "Partitive Articles" in Aosta Valley Francoprovencal-Old Questions and New Data Elisabeth Stark and David Paul Gerards
• Index.
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This volume edited by Tabea Ihsane focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a "partitive article" in its indefinite interpretation and of potentially corresponding bare nouns. It further deals with diachronic issues, such as grammaticalization and evolution in the use of "partitive articles". The outcome is a snapshot of current research into "partitive articles" and the way they relate to bare nouns, in a cross-linguistic perspective and on new data: the research covers noteworthy data (fieldwork data and corpora) from Standard languages - like French and Italian, but also German - to dialectal and regional varieties, including endangered ones like Francoprovencal.
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Ancient literary critics were struck by what they described as Thucydides' "nominal style, " a term that refers to Thucydides' fondness for abstract nominal phrases. As this book shows, Thucydides frequently uses these phrases instead of approximately synonymous verbal and personal constructions. These stylistic choices tend to deemphasize human agency: people find themselves in a passive role, exposed to incidents happening to them rather than being actively in charge of events. Thus, the analysis of the abstract style raises the question of necessity in Thucydides. On numerous occasions, Thucydides and his speakers use impersonal and passive language to stress the subjection of human beings to transpersonal forces that manifest themselves in collective passions and an inherent dynamic of events. These factors are constitutive of the human condition and become a substitute for the notion of divine fatalism prevalent in earlier Greek thought. Yet Thucydidean necessity is not absolute. It stands in the tradition of a type of fatalism that one finds in Homer and Herodotus. In these authors, the gods or fate tend to settle the outcome of the most significant events, but they leave leeway for the specific way in which these pivotal events come to pass. Thus, the Greeks endorsed a malleable variant of necessity, so that considerable scope for human choice persists within the framework fixed by necessity. Pericles turns out to be Thucydides' prime example of an individual who uses the leeway left by necessity for prudent interventions into the course of events.
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• The Issues of Nominalization: Problems and Desiderata for a Theory of Nominalization. English Nominalization: Some Syntactic Issues. A Semantics for English Nominalization. Discussing the Alternatives. The Syntactic and Semantic Status of the "by"-Phrase and the "of"-Phrase. The Propositional Interpretation of Noun Phrases. On Certain Properties of "infinito sostantivo".
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"The Language of Propositions and Events" offers a comprehensive theory of the relation between noun meaning and verb meaning. Two main theses are defended in this book. The first thesis is that an adequate account of the interpretation and distribution of nominals calls for a distinction between three types of entities in the domain of discourse: events, propositions and states of affairs. It is argued that different types of nominals differ in their ability to denote entities of these types and that predicates differ in their ability to select for them. The second main thesis is that an adequate characterization of the relation between noun meaning and verb meaning can be given by taking account of the fact that situations may stand in the "part of" relation. Kratzer's semantics of situations is the basis for this analysis of nominalization. Moreover, the book addresses the issue of the argument structure of nominals and offers an analysis of the puzzling distribution of "infinito sostantivato" in Italian. This book is intended for graduate students in semantics and syntax, theoretical linguists, philosophers of language and students of Romance linguistics.
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• From events to propositions: a tour of abstract entities, eventualities and the nominals that denote them. A crash course in DRT. Attitudes and attitude descriptions. The semantic representation for sentential nominals. Problems for the semantics of nominals. Anaphora and abstract entities. A theory of discourse structure for an analysis of abstract entity anaphora. Applying the theory of discourse structure to the anaphoric phenomena. Applications of the theory of discourse structure to concept anaphora and VP ellipsis. Model theory for abstract entities and its philosophical implications.
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"Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse" presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse. The book begins with a typology of abstract objects and related entities like eventualities. After an introduction to "bottom up, compositional" discourse representation theory (DRT) and to previous work on abstract objects in DRT (notably work on the semantics of the attitudes), the book turns to a semantic analysis of eventuality and abstract object denoting nominals in English. The book then revises and extends the dynamic semantic framework of DRT to develop an analysis of anaphoric reference to abstract objects and eventualities that exploits discourse structure and the discourse relations that obtain between elements of the structure. A dynamic, semantically based theory of discourse structure (SDRT) is proposed, along with many illustrative examples. Two further chapters then provide the analysis of anaphoric reference to propositions VP ellipsis. The abstract entity anaphoric antecedents are elements of the discourse structures that SDRT develops. The final chapter discusses some logical and philosophical difficulties for a semantic analysis of reference to abstract objects. The work should be of interest to semanticists, philosophers of language, computer scientists interested in natural language applications and discourse, philosophical logicians, and graduate students in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
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• The interaction of aspect and valency in nominal structures : a theoretical overview / Maria Bloch-Trojnar and Anna Malicka-Kleparska
• Eventive object experiencer nominalizations in hebrew / Odelia Ahdout
• On the complex relationship between deverbal compounds and argument supporting nominals / Artemis Alexiadou
• Aspectual constraints on the plural marking of argument supporting -nie, -cie nominals in polish / Maria Bloch-Trojnar
• Event nominalizations in -da in European Portuguese : a syntactic approach / Ana Maria Brito
• Group adjectives, argument structure and aspectual characteristics of derived nominals in polish and english / Bożena Cetnarowska
• Lexical categories and aspectual primitives : the case of Spanish -ncia / Antonio Fábregas and Rafael Marín
• A design for the analysis of bare nominalizations in Norwegian / Lars Hellan
• Argument structures in Italian nominalizations / Gioia Insacco
• Morphological and semantic transparency in hebrew agent noun formation / Lior Laks
• Aspect-related properties in the nominal domain : the case of Italian psych nominals / Chiara Melloni
• Generic, habitual and episodic events in Romanian nominalizations / Elena Soare
• Some constraints on the arguments of an event noun with special aspectual properties / Lucia M. Tovena
• Editors
• List of contributors
• Index.

This book contributes to the recent theoretical developments in the area of mutual interactions of valency and aspect, as expressed in different types of verb-related nominal structures (nominalizations and synthetic compounds). A wide range of data from Slavic, Hellenic, Germanic, Romance and Semitic languages provides an empirical testing ground for competing theoretical explanations couched in the lexicalist and construction-based frameworks.
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A proposal for a radical new view of case morphology, supported by a detailed investigation of some of the thorniest topics in Russian grammar. In this book, David Pesetsky argues that the peculiarities of Russian nominal phrases provide significant clues concerning the syntactic side of morphological case. Pesetsky argues against the traditional view that case categories such as nominative or genitive have a special status in the grammar of human languages. Supporting his argument with a detailed analysis of a complex array of morpho-syntactic phenomena in the Russian noun phrase (with brief excursions to other languages), he proposes instead that the case categories are just part-of-speech features copied as morphology from head to dependent as syntactic structure is built. Pesetsky presents a careful investigation of one of the thorniest topics in Russian grammar, the morpho-syntax of noun phrases with numerals (including those traditionally called the paucals). He argues that these bewilderingly complex facts can be explained if case categories are viewed simply as parts of speech, assigned as morphology. Pesetsky's analysis is notable for offering a new theoretical perspective on some of the most puzzling areas of Russian grammar, a highly original account of nominal case that significantly affects our understanding of an important property of language.
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