Semantics for counting and measuring /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rothstein, Susan Deborah (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Series:	Key topics in semantics and pragmatics.
Subjects:	Semantics. Grammar, Comparative and general. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover ; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph ; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Numericals and How They Work; 3 Counting and Measuring; 4 The Mass/Count Distinction; 5 Object Mass Nouns, Measuring and Counting; 6 A Crosslinguistic Perspective; 7 The Universal Grinder; 8 Classifiers; 9 Measures; 10 Additive and Attributive Uses of Measures; 11 In Conclusion; Envoi; References; Language Index; General Index