Iceberg semantics for mass nouns and count nouns : a new framework for Boolean semantics /

"Iceberg semantics is a new framework of Boolean semantics for mass nouns and count nouns in which the interpretation of a noun phrase rises up from a generating base and floats with its base on its Boolean part set, like an iceberg. The framework is shown to preserve the attractive features of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Landman, Fred (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, [2020]
Series:	Studies in linguistics and philosophy ; v. 105.
Subjects:	Semantics > Mathematical models. Grammar, Comparative and general > Collective nouns. Grammar, Comparative and general > Mass nouns.

Table of Contents:

(from table of contents) Introduction
Boolean background
Mountain semantics
Sorting and unsorting
Iceberg semantics for count nouns
Iceberg semantics for count nouns and mass nouns
Neat Mass Nouns
Mess Mass Nouns
The structure of classifier and measures phrases
Iceberg semantics for classifier and measure phrases
Elaborations, developments, justifications.
Introduction
Lecture one: Mountains and Icebergs
Lecture two: Basic Iceberg Semantics
Lecture three: Iceberg Semantics for Modifiers
Lecture four: Classifiers and Measures
Lecture five: Iceberg Semantics for Classifiers and Measures
Lecture six: Iceberg Semantics for Mass Nouns
Lecture seven: Neat Mass Nouns
Lecture eight: Iceberg Semantics for Partitives and Fission Shift
Lecture nine: Notes on Abstract Mass Nouns.