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Quantification /
"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 paints a vivid picture of generalized quantifiers and Boolean semantics. It explain...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Research surveys in linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What this book is about and how to use it
- Generalized quantifiers and their elements: operators and their scopes
- Generalized quantifiers in non-nominal domains
- Some empirically significant properties of quantifiers and determiners
- Potential challenges for generalized quantifiers
- Scope is not uniform and not a primitive
- Existential scope versus distributive scope
- Distributivity and scope
- Bare numeral indefinites
- Modified numerals
- Clause-internal scopal diversity
- Towards a compositional semantics of quantifier words.