Sorting the World : : On the Relevance of the Kind/Object-Distinction to Referential Semantics / / Olav Mueller-Reichau.
The basic hypothesis of this book is that linguistic reference to kinds should be seen as reference to sortal concepts, i.e. cognitive categories for identifying and classifying objects. Viewed that way, kinds serve as the interface between the conceptual system and the grammatical system. Kind-leve...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Linguistics & Philosophy ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (165 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Genericity – the standard view
- Chapter 2: Kinds as sortal concepts – from a cognitive perspective
- Chapter 3: Kinds as ontological primitives – from a semantic perspective
- Chapter 4: Spatiotemporal localisation – type-token theories of genericity
- Chapter 5: Indefinite reference to kinds – the pumpkin crusher puzzle
- Chapter 6: Lexical classes of predicates – normal and Carlsonian kind-level predicates
- Chapter 7 Overt and covert articles – a kind-based DRT approach to the semantics of noun phrases
- References