TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mueller-Reichau,Olav
TI  - Sorting the World: On the Relevance of the Kind/Object-Distinction to Referential Semantics 
T2  - Linguistics & Philosophy ,
SN  - 9783110323030
AV  - B840 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Semantics (Philosophy)
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Chapter 1: Genericity – the standard view --; Chapter 2: Kinds as sortal concepts – from a cognitive perspective --; Chapter 3: Kinds as ontological primitives – from a semantic perspective --; Chapter 4: Spatiotemporal localisation – type-token theories of genericity --; Chapter 5: Indefinite reference to kinds – the pumpkin crusher puzzle --; Chapter 6: Lexical classes of predicates – normal and Carlsonian kind-level predicates --; Chapter 7 Overt and covert articles – a kind-based DRT approach to the semantics of noun phrases --; References; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The basic hypothesis of this book is that linguistic reference to kinds should be seen as reference to sortal concepts, i.e. cognitive categories for identifying and classifying objects. Viewed that way, kinds serve as the interface between the conceptual system and the grammatical system. Kind-level predicates differ as to whether they presuppose (e.g. to be extinct) or entail (e.g. to invent) the existence of objects, with crucial consequences for the interpretation of indefinite argument noun phrases. Moreover, object reference always involves underlying kind reference, but kind reference does not always involve object reference. This asymmetry, once recognized, proves useful in solving otherwise puzzling problems in semantic composition
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110323580
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110323580
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110323580/original
ER  -