The Semantics of Plurals, Focus, Degrees, and Times
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The Semantics of Plurals, Focus, Degrees, and Times

Essays in Honor of Roger Schwarzschild

Herausgegeben: Altshuler, Daniel; Rett, Jessica
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This volume is a tribute to Roger Schwarzschild's immense contributions in the formal semantics of nouns, focus, degrees and space, and tense and aspect. Collectively, the papers in the volume reveal parallels across ontological domains, in particular in the context of elements with internal structure, like plural sets, alternative sets, degree intervals, temporal intervals, and vectors. This research suggests that the structure of an entity could inform the semantic behavior of that entity just as much (if not more) than its semantic type or lexical category. And because these structures dict...