Detailed Information on Publication Record
2019
Doing without atoms : Evidence from subatomic quantification
WĄGIEL, MarcinBasic information
Original name
Doing without atoms : Evidence from subatomic quantification
Authors
WĄGIEL, Marcin (616 Poland, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Numerals in Grammar and Beyond, 17-18 October 2019, Leiden, 2019
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher
Netherlands
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/19:00108028
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
atomicity; countability; mass/count distinction; mereology; mereotopology
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Změněno: 18/2/2020 08:21, Mgr. Igor Hlaváč
Abstract
V originále
In standard theories of pluralities and countability, the mass/count distinction is often formulated in terms of atomicity (e.g., Link 1983, Landman 1991, 2000, Chierchia 1998, 2010, Champollion 2017). Despite significant differences in particular theories, the contrast between count and mass nouns usually boils down to the existence or lack of minimal building blocks in their denotations or, alternativley, to a distinct nature of those building blocks. The approach developed in this paper rejects the view that what counts as one is best represented as an atomic entity. Instead, building on a mereotopological approach to nominal semantics (Grimm 2012, see also Casati & Varzi 1999) I propose that countability is a feature of individuals that constitute non-overlapping and integrated wholes (as opposed to, e.g., scattered entities and arbitrary sums).
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