Mass Terms and Model-Theoretic Semantics (Paperback)

Preface; Part I. Model-Theoretic Semantics of Mass Terms: 1. Introduction; 2. Mass terms; 3. Approaches to mass term semantics; 4. Towards a semantic theory of mass nouns; 5. Ensemble theory; 6. Semantic representations based on ensemble theory; 7. Two-level model-theoretic semantics; 8. Quantification and mass nouns; 9. Modification and mass nouns; Part II. Ensemble Theory: 10. Axiomatic ensemble theory; 11. Continuous, discrete and mixed ensembles; 12. A model for ensemble theory; 13. Ensemble theory, set theory and mereology; Notes; Bibliography; Index.