Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems
I. MASS TERMS, COUNT TERMS, AND SORTAL TERMS Central examples of mass terms are easy to come by. 'Water', 'smoke', 'gold', etc. , differ in their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties from count terms such as 'man', 'star', 'wastebasket', etc. Syntactically, it seems, mass terms do, but singular count terms do not, admit the quantifier phrases 'much', 'an amount of', 'a little', etc. The typical indefinite article for them is 'some' (unstressed)!, and this article cannot be used with singular count terms. Count terms, but not mass terms, use the quantifiers 'each', 'every', 'some', 'few', 'many'; and they use 'a(n)' as the indefinite…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4020-3265-3
- EAN: 9781402032653
- Produktnummer: 1529986
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 324 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.7 cm 421 g
- Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 421
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