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From the journal Theoretical Linguistics Volume 41 Issue 3-4

Abstract

This is a reply to the comments by Corver, Doetjes, Link, Piñón, Schwarzschild, and Syrett on the target article in this volume, Stratified reference: The common core of distributivity, aspect, and measurement. Stratified reference is designed to capture semantic oppositions involving atelicity, plurality and mass reference, extensive measure functions, distributivity, and collectivity. Following suggestions by some of the commentators, stratified reference is refined here in two ways: it is restricted to the parts of the event or individual in question, and its granularity parameter is instantiated with a predicate built around mereological proper parthood and degree ordering.

Keywords: algebraic semantics; aspect; boundedness; collectivity; distributivity; mass; measurement; mereology; monotonicity; plural; partitives; telicity

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Electronic supplementary material

A 60-minute video exposition of the original proposal in the target article is available at the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTL17Qf2lU

Published Online: 2015-9-29
Published in Print: 2015-10-1

©2015 by De Gruyter Mouton

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  3. Stratified reference: the common core of distributivity, aspect, and measurement
  4. Comments
  5. (Un)boundedness across syntactic categories
  6. Very small or just not too big? Stratified reference and granularity
  7. Stratified reference: a note on its logic
  8. An illusory common core
  9. Partitives and duratives
  10. Events and agents in the acquisition of universal quantification
  11. Reply
  12. Refining stratified reference
  13. Reply (TL 41 1–2)
  14. The monotonic behaviour of language patterns
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2015-0015
Keywords for this article
algebraic semantics; aspect; boundedness; collectivity; distributivity; mass; measurement; mereology; monotonicity; plural; partitives; telicity

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  3. Stratified reference: the common core of distributivity, aspect, and measurement
  4. Comments
  5. (Un)boundedness across syntactic categories
  6. Very small or just not too big? Stratified reference and granularity
  7. Stratified reference: a note on its logic
  8. An illusory common core
  9. Partitives and duratives
  10. Events and agents in the acquisition of universal quantification
  11. Reply
  12. Refining stratified reference
  13. Reply (TL 41 1–2)
  14. The monotonic behaviour of language patterns
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