Partitives, numerals and a unified part-whole structure

WĄGIEL, Marcin. Partitives, numerals and a unified part-whole structure. In 3rd Budapest Linguistics Conference (BLINC 3), Budapest, 6–8 June 2019. 2019.

Basic information

• Original name: Partitives, numerals and a unified part-whole structure
• Authors: WĄGIEL, Marcin (616 Poland, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: 3rd Budapest Linguistics Conference (BLINC 3), Budapest, 6–8 June 2019, 2019.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60203 Linguistics
• Country of publisher: Hungary
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: Webové stránky konference
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/19:00108034
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: numerals; mereology; mereotopology; quantification; partitivity
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

In standard lattice-theoretic approaches to natural language (e.g., Link 1983, Landman 2000, Champollion 2017) singularities and pluralities are assumed to involve two distinct mereological structures and it is supposed that compositional semantics is not sensitive to the manner how parts of a whole are arranged. In this paper, I argue that: i) some quantificational operations including counting presuppose certain topological relations to hold within a part-whole structure and ii) quantification over parts and wholes are subject to identical restrictions. I present new evidence in favor of a mereotopological approach to nominal semantics (Grimm 2012) and novel data concerning the interaction between quantification and part-whole relations.

Links

• GA17-16111S, research and development project: Name: Formální přístupy ke gramatickému číslu ve slovanských jazycích

Investor: Czech Science Foundation