http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
1 online resource (xviii, 223 pages) : illustrations
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2010