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Zhlen und Messen (Counting and Measuring)

 

SYLLABUS

 

CLASS NOTES

Mereology

 

READING MATERIAL

Allan, KEITH. 1980. Nouns and Countability. Language 56:541–567.

BARNER, DAVID and JESSE SNEDEKER. 2005. Quantity judgments and individuation: evidence that mass nouns count. Cognition 97.41–66.

CHIERCHIA, GENNARO. 2010. Mass nouns, vagueness and semantic variation. Synthse 174:99–149.

COOPER, ROBIN. 2012. Type theory and semantics in flux. In Ruth Kempson, Nicholas Asher, and Tim Fernando, eds., Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, volume 14: Philosophy of Linguistics, pages 271-323. Elsevier BV. General editors: Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods.

GRIMM, SCOTT. 2012. Number and Individuation. Ph. D. Thesis, Stanford University. Stanford, CA. TBA.

KRIFKA, MANFRED. 1989. Nominal Reference, Temporal Constitution and Quantification in Event Semantics. In R. Bartsch, J. van Benthem, and P. van Emde Boas, eds., Semantics and Contextual Expressions, pp. 75-115. Dordrecht: Foris.

LANDMAN, FRED. 2011. Count Nouns - Mass Nouns, Neat Nouns - Mess Nouns. In B. H. Partee, M. Glanzberg, and J. Skilters, eds., Formal Semantics and Pragmatics. Discourse, Contexts, and Models. The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic, and Communication, Vol. 6. Manhattan, KS: New Prairie Press.

LIMA, SUZI. 2014. The grammar of individuation and counting. Ph. D. Thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

PELLETIER, FRANCIS JEFFRY. 2011. Descriptive Metaphysics, Natural Language Metaphysics, Sapir-Whorf, and all that Stuff: Evidence from the Mass-Count Distinction. In B. H. Partee, M. Glanzberg, and J. Skilters, eds., Formal Semantics and Pragmatics. Discourse, Contexts, and Models. The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic, and Communication, Vol. 6 , pp. 1-46. Manhattan, KS: New Prairie Press.

——. 2012. Lexical Nouns are Neither Mass nor Count, but they are Both Mass and Count. In D. Massam, ed., A Cross-Linguistic Exploration of the Count-Mass Distinction, pp. 9-26. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

ROTHSTEIN, SUSAN. 2010. Counting and the Mass/Count Distinction. Journal of Semantics 27(3):343-397.