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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Herburger, Elena
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
©2000
Series:Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 36.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Overview and background
  • 2. Negated and nonnegated sentences
  • 3. Adverbial quantifiers
  • 4. Only and even
  • 5. Determiners.

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