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  title info:
    title: Kinds, things, and stuff
    sub title: mass terms and generics
  name:
    name part: Pelletier, Francis Jeffry
    name part: 1944-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 223 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: 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.
  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.
  note: edited by Francis Jeffry Pelletier.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Genericalness (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Mass nouns
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Générique (Linguistique)
  subject:
    topic: Sémantique
  subject:
    topic: Noms comptables
  subject:
    topic: Langage et langues
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: semantics
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: Grammar & Punctuation
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: Linguistics
    topic: Syntax
  subject:
    topic: Genericalness (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Mass nouns
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Semantik
    genre: konferenser
  classification: P299.G44 K56 2010eb
  classification: 415
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    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
    identifier: (DLC) 2009021438
    identifier: (OCoLC)368048360
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 091216
    record change date: 20260318175034.9
    record identifier: in00005704504
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng