{"product_id":"parts-of-a-whole-lucas-champollion-9780198755128","title":"Parts of a Whole: Distributivity as a Bridge Between Aspect and Measurement","description":"This book uses mathematical models of language to explain why there are certain gaps in language: things that we might expect to be able to say but can't. For instance, why can we say I ran for five minutes but not *I ran all the way to the store for five minutes? Why is \u003cem\u003efive pounds of books\u003c\/em\u003e acceptable, but *\u003cem\u003efive pounds of book \u003c\/em\u003enot acceptable? What prevents us from saying *\u003cem\u003esixty degrees of water\u003c\/em\u003e to express the temperature of the water in a swimming pool when \u003cem\u003esixty inches of water \u003c\/em\u003ecan express its depth? And why can we not say *\u003cem\u003eall the ants in my kitchen are numerous\u003c\/em\u003e? The constraints on these constructions involve concepts that are generally studied separately: aspect, plural and mass reference, measurement, and distributivity. In this book, Lucas Champollion provides a unified perspective on these domains, connects them formally within the framework of algebraic semantics and mereology, and uses this connection to transfer insights across unrelated bodies of literature and formulate a single constraint that explains each of the judgments above.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lucas Champollion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198755120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198755128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/23\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Lucas Champollion","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424982057215,"sku":"9780198755128","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c74e82ab-0282-4948-8359-f9e680e5ad8e.jpg?v=1761536184","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/parts-of-a-whole-lucas-champollion-9780198755128","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}