TY - CHAP
T1 - Iceberg Semantics for Count Nouns and Mass Nouns
AU - Landman, Fred
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This chapter develops the Iceberg semantics account of the distinctions count-mass and neat-mess; it further develops the DP semantics and addresses some mass-count puzzles. In Sect. 6.1 the notions count, mass, neat, mess are defined for i-sets, then generalized from i-sets to intensions and from there to NPs (and DPs). The intensional theory is set up in such a way that it is in principle possible for count noun interpretations to violate (under pressure) the disjointness requirement. The section ends with the first installment of a discussion of the disjointness requirement. (The second installment takes place in Chap. 11). Sections 6.2 and 4.3 illustrate Iceberg semantics for DPs and introduce the Iceberg operation of singular shift, the operation which reinterprets an Iceberg plurality as an Iceberg singularity. This operation is used in Sects. 6.4 and 6.5 to give an analysis in Iceberg semantics of the portioning problem discussed in Sect. 4.5, and another problem known as Gillon’s problem.
AB - This chapter develops the Iceberg semantics account of the distinctions count-mass and neat-mess; it further develops the DP semantics and addresses some mass-count puzzles. In Sect. 6.1 the notions count, mass, neat, mess are defined for i-sets, then generalized from i-sets to intensions and from there to NPs (and DPs). The intensional theory is set up in such a way that it is in principle possible for count noun interpretations to violate (under pressure) the disjointness requirement. The section ends with the first installment of a discussion of the disjointness requirement. (The second installment takes place in Chap. 11). Sections 6.2 and 4.3 illustrate Iceberg semantics for DPs and introduce the Iceberg operation of singular shift, the operation which reinterprets an Iceberg plurality as an Iceberg singularity. This operation is used in Sects. 6.4 and 6.5 to give an analysis in Iceberg semantics of the portioning problem discussed in Sect. 4.5, and another problem known as Gillon’s problem.
KW - Groups
KW - Mass-count distinction
KW - Neat-mess distinction
KW - Plurality
KW - Singular shift
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102004387&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-42711-5_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-42711-5_6
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AN - SCOPUS:85102004387
T3 - Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
SP - 161
EP - 187
BT - Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
ER -