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; New directions in cognitive science
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780195382891
Subjects: Genericalness (Linguistics); Semantics; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mass nouns; Language and languages -- Philosophy
Description: With philosophical and linguistic semanticists on the one side and cognitive and developmental psychologists on the other questions in the semantic and logical theories of generic statements that employ mass terms by looking to the cognitive abilities of speakers and of child language-learners are discussed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Francis Jeffry Pelletier; title: Generics; title: Generics : 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 generics created equal? / Francis Jeffry Pelletier; title: Stability in concepts and evaluating the truth of generic statements / James A. Hampton; title: Generics as a window onto young children's concepts / Susan A. 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 J. Wisniewski; title: Count nouns, sortal concepts, and the nature of early words / Fei Xu.