Kinds, things, and stuff [electronic resource] : mass terms and generics /
by Pelletier, Francis Jeffry.
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BookSeries: New directions in cognitive science: Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 223 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780199870493 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Genericalness (Linguistics) | Semantics | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Mass nouns | Language and languages -- PhilosophyOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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