What counts : focus and quantification /

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. Adopting a neo-Davidsonian stance, Herburger claims that various pragmatic and truth-c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herburger, Elena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
©2000
Colección:Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 36.
Temas:
Focus (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general > Quantifiers.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Determiners.
Semantics.
Pragmatics.
Semantics
Focus (Linguistique)
Quantificateurs (Linguistique)
Déterminants (Linguistique)
Sémantique.
Pragmatique.
semantics.
pragmatics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Overview and background
  • 2. Negated and nonnegated sentences
  • 3. Adverbial quantifiers
  • 4. Only and even
  • 5. Determiners.

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