Susan Rothstein

Semantics for Counting and Measuring

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780521171823
• ISBN-10: 0521171822
• Artikelnr.: 56482533

Autorenporträt

Susan Rothstein is a Professor in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She has written more than fifty articles and is the author of two previous books, Predicates and their Subjects (2001) and Structuring Events (2004), as well as editor or co-editor of several others.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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