Anthropological report on the Edo-speaking peoples of Nigeria /

pt. 1. Law and custom.--pt. 2. Linguistics. Section I. Edo texts. Section II. Texts in other languages of the Edo family. Section III. Edo grammar. Section IV. Comparative dictionary of selected words in the Edo language. Section V. Edo-English dictionary.

Counting as a Type of Measuring

There may be two and a half bagels on the table. When there are two and a half, it is false that there are exactly two. As obvious as these claims are, they can’t be accounted for on the most straightforward and familiar views of counting and the semantics of number words. I develop a view on which counting is a type of measuring. In particular, counting involves a specific measure function. I then analyze that function and show how it can account for the cases in which counting is sensitive to partiality, e.g. partial bagels.