Kinds, things, and stuff
Subtitle: mass terms and generics
By: edited by Francis Jeffry Pelletier.
Contributors: Pelletier, Francis Jeffry, 1944-
Series: New directions in cognitive science
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195382891
Subjects: Genericalness (Linguistics); Semantics; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mass nouns; Language and languages -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction / Francis Jeffry Pelletier; title: Generics; title: A philosophical introduction / Francis Jeffry Pelletier; title: Generics and concepts / Gregory Carlson; title: Conceptual representation and some forms of genericity / Sandeep Prasada; title: Are all generic statements created equal? / Francis Jeffry Pelletier; title: Stability in concepts and evaluating the truth of generic statements / James Hampton; title: Generics as a window onto young children's concepts / Susan Gelman; title: Mass terms; title: Mass terms : a philosophical introduction / Francis Jeffry Pelletier; title: A piece of cheese, a grain of sand : the semantics of mass nouns and unitizers / Clifford Goddard; title: On using count nouns, mass nouns, and pluralia tantum : what counts? / Edward Wisniewski; title: Count nouns, sortal concepts, and the nature of early words / Fei Xu.