Kinds, things, and stuff [electronic resource] : mass terms and generics / edited by Francis Jeffry Pelletier. Pelletier, Francis Jeffry, 1944- Genericalness (Linguistics) Semantics. Grammar, Comparative and general Mass nouns. Language and languages Philosophy. P299.G44 415 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. With philosophical and linguistic semanticists on the one side and cognitive and developmental psychologists on the other questions in the semantic and logical theories of generic statements that employ mass terms by looking to the cognitive abilities of speakers and of child language-learners are discussed. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010. c2010. 2010 Text 1 online resource (xviii, 223 p.) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195382891.001.0001 eng New directions in cognitive science New directions in cognitive science.