Mass Terms and Model-Theoretic Semantics

by Harry C. Bunt

Book Overview

'Mass terms' like water, rice and traffic, have proved very difficult to accommodate in any theory of meaning since, unlike count nouns such as house or dog, they cannot be treated as denoting sets of individuals. In this study, motivated by the need to design a computer program for understanding natural language utterances containing mass terms, Harry Bunt provides a thorough analysis of the problem and offers an original and detailed solution. An...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521105919
• ISBN13: 9780521105910
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"