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Splitting atoms in natural languageAndreas Haida,
Tue Trinh, 2021, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph
Abstract: The classic Fregean analysis of numerical statements runs into problems with sentences containing non-integers such as John read 2.5 novels, since it takes such statements to specify the cardinality of a set which by definition must be a natural number. We propose a semantics for numeral phrases which allows us to count mereological subparts of objects in such a way as to predict several robust linguistic intuitions about these sentences. We also identify a number of open questions which the proposal fails to address and hence must be left to future research.
Keywords: numerals, non-intergers, mereology
Published in RUNG: 09.01.2025; Views: 382; Downloads: 3
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