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The goal of semantics is the insightful identification of the set of meanings that human language can express - the construction of what has been called the metaphysics of natural language. A formal attempt to construct such a metaphysics has generally involved identifying a set of individuals referred to as the universe of discourse. Until recently, however, semanticists have had little to say about the structure of this set. Ojeda argues that the structure of the set of linguistic individuals is a mereology, that is, the domain of discourse is made up of kinds and the instantiations of kinds. His argument forms the four main sections of this work. The first examines the semantics of countability (countable stems, number inflection, adjectives of measure, and determiners); the second explores the semantics of uncountability (the individuation of reference, the reversibility of countability, cumulative and distributive reference, and non-Boolean mass predicates); the third takes up the semantics of nominality (the mereological homogeneity of nouns and the constraints on nouns in classifier languages); and the last investigates the semantics of the conceptional neuter, a pronominal category discussed by Otto Jesperson. Ojeda's investigations contribute to the characterization of linguistic individuals and provide for a new basis for the semantics of individuation.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, etc

• Full title: Linguistic Individuals
• Author: Almerindo E. Ojeda
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780937073841
• ISBN: 0937073849
• ID: 04762606
• Publisher: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
• Weight: 374 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. January 1993

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