A Vague Domain for Nominal Countability
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To reflect the semantic differences of count and mass nouns, Link(1983) proposes a double domain with atoms and nonatoms and arguesthat nominal countability parallels with semantic atomicity. Although thematching relation of countability and atomicity provides interestingaccounts for many semantic phenomena, it has no theoretical ground forissues like minimal entities of nonatoms, flexible interpretations of somecount nouns, combined denotations of atoms and nonatoms, and functionalproblems of shifting and group readings. To overcome the problems of Link’s analysis, Chierchia (2010) proposesa single domain which includes stable atoms and unstable entitiesordered by the precisification order of contexts. Minimal entities formass interpretations are not problematic in this domain because unstableentities are context-dependent and a truth value gap is approved in thisvague domain. The context-dependency of shifting functions accountsfor the different acceptability of shifted readings. To deal with the residualproblems, I argue that the flexible atomicity of count nouns is due totheir group denotations and elaborate the theory with the context-dependentgroup formation function. Finally, I show that the vague domain is aproper structure for the combined denotations of count and mass nouns.
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To reflect the semantic differences of count and mass nouns, Link(1983) proposes a double domain with atoms and nonatoms and arguesthat nominal countability parallels with semantic atomicity. Although thematching relation of countability and atomicity provides interestingaccounts for many semantic phenomena, it has no theoretical ground forissues like minimal entities of nonatoms, flexible interpretations of somecount nouns, combined denotations of atoms and nonatoms, and functionalproblems of shifting and group readings. To overcome the problems of Link’s analysis, Chierchia (2010) proposesa single domain which includes stable atoms and unstable entitiesordered by the precisification order of contexts. Minimal entities formass interpretations are not problematic in this domain because unstableentities are context-dependent and a truth value gap is approved in thisvague domain. The context-dependency of shifting functions accountsfor the different acceptability of shifted readings. To deal with the residualproblems, I argue that the flexible atomicity of count nouns is due totheir group denotations and elaborate the theory with the context-dependentgroup formation function. Finally, I show that the vague domain is aproper structure for the combined denotations of count and mass nouns.
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