Parts, wholes and clusters : Italian irregular plurals and a unified notion of parthood
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In this paper, I argue that the part-whole structures of both singularities and pluralities encode the same notion of parthood but differ with respect to topological relations holding between their constituent parts. I present new evidence in favor of a mereotopological approach to nominal semantics and novel data concerning the interaction between quantification and part-whole relations. The core data come from so called irregular plurals in Italian. |
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