mass terms and generics Pelletier, Francis Jeffry 1944- text nyu New York Oxford Oxford University Press c2010 2010 monographic eng

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1 online resource (xviii, 223 p.) : ill. 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. specialized edited by Francis Jeffry Pelletier. Includes bibliographical references and index. Genericalness (Linguistics) Semantics Grammar, Comparative and general Mass nouns Language and languages Philosophy P299.G44 415 9780199870493 (ebook) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195382891.001.0001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195382891.001.0001 StDuBDS 100211 20150804193934.0 EDZ0000075843