In search of building blocks of nominal denotations
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In this paper, I present new evidence in favor of a mereotopological approach to nominal semantics where building blocks of nominals’ denotations are modeled as integrated wholes rather than simply as atoms (Grimm 2012). I argue that certain quantificational expressions are sensitive to subatomic part-whole structures and indicate topological relations such as integrity |
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