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oup-usa.org>Title: Parts and Wholes in Semantics Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford University Press http://www.oup-usa.org/ Book URL: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195154932.html Author: Frederike Moltmann, University of Liverpool Hardback: ISBN: 019509574X, Pages: 272 pp, Price: $ 45.00 Paperback: ISBN: 0195154932, Pages: 272 pp, Price: $ 24.95 Abstract: This book develops a unified account of expressions involving the notions of "part" and "whole " in which principles of the individuation of part structures play a central role. Moltmann presents a range of new empirical generalizations with data from English and a variety of other languages involving plurals, mass nouns, adnominal and adverbial modifiers such as as a whole, together, and alone, nominal and adverbial quanitfiers ranging over parts, and expressions of completion such as completely and partly. She develops a new theory of part structures which differs from traditional mereological theories in that the notion of an integrated whole plays a central role and in that the part structure of an entity is allowed to vary across different situations, perspectives, and dimensions. Lingfield(s): Linguistic Theories, Semantics Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue