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oapen-20.500.12657-510492023-01-31T18:35:27Z Subatomic quantification (Volume 6) Wągiel, Marcin Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics The goal of this book is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of parthood and various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural language. The monograph aims to investigate syntactic constructions and lexical categories, e.g., partitives, whole-adjectives, and multipliers, encoding different kinds of part-whole structures both in Slavic and non-Slavic languages. It is envisioned to inspire radical rethinking of the ontology of models accounting for nominal semantics. Specifically, it provides novel evidence for a mereotopological approach to meaning, i.e., a theory of wholes that captures not only parthood but also topological relations holding between parts. This evidence comes from the phenomenon of subatomic quantification, i.e., quantification over parts of referents of concrete count nouns. 2021-10-16T05:32:30Z 2021-10-16T05:32:30Z 2021 book 9783985540112 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51049 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Language Science Press Language Science Press https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5106382 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5106382 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783985540112 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Language Science Press Knowledge Unlatched open access
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The goal of this book is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of parthood and various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural language. The monograph aims to investigate syntactic constructions and lexical categories, e.g., partitives, whole-adjectives, and multipliers, encoding different kinds of part-whole structures both in Slavic and non-Slavic languages. It is envisioned to inspire radical rethinking of the ontology of models accounting for nominal semantics. Specifically, it provides novel evidence for a mereotopological approach to meaning, i.e., a theory of wholes that captures not only parthood but also topological relations holding between parts. This evidence comes from the phenomenon of subatomic quantification, i.e., quantification over parts of referents of concrete count nouns.
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