Quantification

Informationen zum Autor Anna Szabolcsi is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at New York University. Klappentext The most useful and rigorous overview of quantification to date. Zusammenfassung Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the foundational work in the 1970s. It explains how the discovery of diverse scope behaviour in the 1990s transformed the view of quantification. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. What this book is about and how to use it; 2. Generalized quantifiers and their elements: operators and their scopes; 3. Generalized quantifiers in non-nominal domains; 4. Some empirically significant properties of quantifiers and determiners; 5. Potential challenges for generalized quantifiers; 6. Scope is not uniform and not a primitive; 7. Existential scope versus distributive scope; 8. Distributivity and scope; 9. Bare numeral indefinites; 10. Modified numerals; 11. Clause-internal scopal diversity; 12. Towards a compositional semantics of quantifier words.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Szabolcsi, Anna (New York University) Szabolcsi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2010
• EAN: 9780521715935
• ISBN: 978-0-521-71593-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Research Surveys in Linguistics; Research Surveys in Linguistic; Research Surveys in Linguistics; Research Surveys in Linguistic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics