Counting individuals and their halves.
Expressions like two novels are traditionally taken to convey information about cardinality and are analyzed using a cardinality function. Salmon (Philosop Perspect 11:1–15, 1997), Liebesman (Australasian J Philos 93:21–42, 2015; Philos' Impr 16:1–25, 2016; In D. W. Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford studies i...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 47; no. 5; pp. 867 - 915 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=180331624&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 180331624 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01650157 OJI jtl: Linguistics & Philosophy issn: 01650157 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2024 vid: 47 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 180331624 10.1007/s10988-024-09418-4 ppf: 867 ppct: 48 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.2MB tig: atl: Counting individuals and their halves. aug: au: Bale, Alan Nicolas, David affil: https://ror.org/0420zvk78 Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Institute Jean Nicod, ENS, PSL, EHESS, CNRS, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005, Paris, France su: Nouns Semantics Number (Grammar) Slavic languages Fractions sug: subj: Nouns Semantics Number (Grammar) Slavic languages Fractions keyword: Cardinality Count nouns Counting Measure functions Plurals ab: Expressions like two novels are traditionally taken to convey information about cardinality and are analyzed using a cardinality function. Salmon (Philosop Perspect 11:1–15, 1997), Liebesman (Australasian J Philos 93:21–42, 2015; Philos' Impr 16:1–25, 2016; In D. W. Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford studies in metaphysics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, forthcoming), and Haida and Trinh (in: Dočekal, Wagiel (eds) Formal approaches to number in Slavic and beyond, Language Science Press, Berlin, 2001) argue against this traditional account, claiming that it can't explain our use of expressions like two and a half novels. According to them, the proper analysis of such expressions requires a partiality measure, which maps entities to rational numbers such as 2.5. In this paper, we set out to defend the traditional account. To do so, we demonstrate that an analysis based on a partiality measure is inconsistent with the truth conditions of plural comparatives and equatives. We also show that such an account doesn't provide an adequate analysis for expressions like two novels and a half, nor for their French counterparts (e.g., deux romans et demi). Critically, such expressions contain no constituent that could refer to the number 2.5. We provide an alternative analysis for all these expressions, based on cardinality and an operation of non-overlapping summation. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Linguistics & Philosophy is a copyright of Springer, 2024. All Rights Reserved. item: Linguistics & Philosophy holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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