Refining stratified reference

Lucas Champollion

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    Abstract

    This is a reply to the comments by Corver, Doetjes, Link, Piñón, Schwarzschild, and Syrett on the target article in this volume, Stratified reference: The common core of distributivity, aspect, and measurement. Stratified reference is designed to capture semantic oppositions involving atelicity, plurality and mass reference, extensive measure functions, distributivity, and collectivity. Following suggestions by some of the commentators, stratified reference is refined here in two ways: it is restricted to the parts of the event or individual in question, and its granularity parameter is instantiated with a predicate built around mereological proper parthood and degree ordering.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)223-240
    Number of pages18
    JournalTheoretical Linguistics
    Volume41
    Issue number3-4
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Oct 1 2015

    Keywords

    • algebraic semantics
    • aspect
    • boundedness
    • collectivity
    • distributivity
    • mass
    • measurement
    • mereology
    • monotonicity
    • partitives
    • plural
    • telicity

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Language and Linguistics
    • Linguistics and Language

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