Kinds, things, and stuff : mass terms and generics /
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry,1944-
New York : Oxford University Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Francis Jeffry Pelletier -- Generics -- Generics : a philosophical introduction / Francis Jeffry Pelletier -- Generics and concepts / Gregory Carlson -- Conceptual representation and some forms of genericity / Sandeep Prasada -- Are all generics created equal? / Francis Jeffry Pelletier -- Stability in concepts and evaluating the truth of generic statements / James A. Hampton -- Generics as a window onto young children's concepts / Susan A. Gelman -- Mass terms -- Mass terms : a philosophical introduction / Francis Jeffry Pelletier -- A piece of cheese, a grain of sand : the semantics of mass nouns and unitizers / Clifford Goddard -- On using count nouns, mass nouns, and pluralia tantum : what counts? / Edward J. Wisniewski -- Count nouns, sortal concepts, and the nature of early words / Fei Xu.
Genericalness (Linguistics)
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Language and languages