Kinds, Things, and Stuff: Mass Terms and Generics

By Francis Jeffry Pelletier

With philosophical and linguistic semanticists on the one side and cognitive and developmental psychologists on the other, questions in the semantic and logical theories of generic statements that employ mass terms by looking to the cognitive abilities of speakers and of child language-learners are discussed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195382897
• ISBN13: 9780195382891
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"