Overview

The eight papers collected in Plurality and Quantification address three central issues in the study of plurality and quantification in natural languages. The first major theme regards algebraic approaches to plurals and quantification that have emerged as the leading paradigm for the study of these empirical phenomena over the last decade. The second main issue concerns the philosophical and mathematical foundations of concepts such as distributivity and collectivity. Finally, the authors address a broad range of empirical phenomena in Germanic and Romance languages, including the influence of Aktionsart on plural noun phrases, negative polarity, mass terms, plural quantification, and noun phrase conjunction. Many of the papers shed new light on the question of how many readings have to be assigned to plural sentences and on the respective consequences for the architecture of the syntax-semantics interface. Furthermore, most of the contributions contain insights which bear upon the study of the structure of universal grammar. Audience: Plurality and Quantification will interest linguists, graduate students in semantics and syntax, philosophers of language and philosophical logicians interested in the semantics of natural language.

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Author:   F. Hamm ,  Erhard W. Hinrichs
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998
Volume:   69
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.605kg
ISBN:  

9789048149438

ISBN 10:   9048149436
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   15 December 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Ten Years of Research on Plurals — Where Do We Stand?.- The Influence of Plural NPs on Aktionsart in DRT.- Mass Terms and Plurals in Property Theory.- Three Types of Polarity.- Sums and Quantifiers.- Some Issues in the Analysis of Multiple Quantification with Plural NPs.- Reducing the Coordination of Determiners: Some Principles.- Issues on Distributive and Collective Readings.- Index of Subjects.- Index of Names.

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