Title: | Stratified reference: the common core of distributivity, aspect, and measurement |
Authors: | Champollion, Lucas |
Keywords: | linguistics;semantics;algebraic semantics;aspect;boundedness;collectivity;distributivity;mass;measurement;mereology;monotonicity;plural;partitives;telicity |
Issue Date: | Oct-2015 |
Publisher: | de Gruyter |
Citation: | Champollion, Lucas (2015). Stratified reference: the common core of distributivity, aspect, and measurement. Theoretical Linguistics. Volume 41, Issue 3-4, Pages 109–149, ISSN (Online) 1613-4060, ISSN (Print) 0301-4428, DOI: 10.1515/tl-2015-0008, September 2015 |
Abstract: | Why can I tell you that I 'ran for five minutes' but not that I *'ran to the store for five minutes'? Why can we talk about 'five pounds of books' but not about *'five pounds of book'? What keeps you from saying *'sixty degrees Celsius of water' when you can say 'sixty inches of water'? And what goes wrong when I complain that *'all the ants in my kitchen are numerous'? The constraints on these constructions involve concepts that are generally studied separately: aspect, plural and mass reference, measurement, distributivity, and collectivity. This paper provides a unified perspective on these domains and gives a single answer to the questions above in the framework of algebraic event semantics. |
URI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tl-2015-0008 http://hdl.handle.net/2451/34275 |
Appears in Collections: | Lucas Champollion's publications |
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