Kinds, things, and stuff : mass terms and generics /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pelletier, Francis Jeffry, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:New directions in cognitive science.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Francis Jeffry Pelletier
  • Generics
  • Generics : a philosophical introduction / Francis Jeffry Pelletier
  • Generics and concepts / Gregory Carlson
  • Conceptual representation and some forms of genericity / Sandeep Prasada
  • Are all generics created equal? / Francis Jeffry Pelletier
  • Stability in concepts and evaluating the truth of generic statements / James A. Hampton
  • Generics as a window onto young children's concepts / Susan A. Gelman
  • Mass terms
  • Mass terms : a philosophical introduction / Francis Jeffry Pelletier
  • A piece of cheese, a grain of sand : the semantics of mass nouns and unitizers / Clifford Goddard
  • On using count nouns, mass nouns, and pluralia tantum : what counts? / Edward J. Wisniewski
  • Count nouns, sortal concepts, and the nature of early words / Fei Xu.