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What Counts - Focus and Quantification

English · Paperback / Softback

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In What Counts, Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects the pragmatics and truth conditions of a sentence by rearranging its quantificational structure.


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Bradley A. Thayer is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.


Summary

In What Counts, Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects the pragmatics and truth conditions of a sentence by rearranging its quantificational structure.

Product details

Authors Elena Herburger, Elena (Georgetown Univ) Herburger
Publisher The MIT Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 10.10.2000
 
EAN 9780262581851
ISBN 978-0-262-58185-1
No. of pages 184
Series Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
What Counts
Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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