New publication in the proceedings of “Sinn und Bedeutung” coming soon

Referential Transparency Theory (RTT) now also covers mass nouns!

The authors argue that much of the work on pluralities and mass nouns in in so-called modern semantic theories primarily seeks to mitigate the effects of mereotopological domains. They therefore abandon such domains in favor of the RTT system, extended by a novel quantitative semantic type Stuff. Crucial notions such as cumulative and divisive reference emerge naturally from this independently motivated setup. Rather idiosyncratic internal parthood relations of nominal expressions are appropriately captured in lexical entries.

@inproceedings{Luecking:Ginzburg:2025-mass-nouns,
  title     = {Postmodern Quantification with Stuff},
  author    = {Lücking, Andy and Ginzburg, Jonathan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of \textit{Sinn und Bedeutung}},
  volume    = {29},
  series    = {SuB'29},
  year      = {2025},
  pubstate  = {forthcoming},
  note      = {Forthcoming}
}