Quantification in Natural Languages: Volume I

Author:   Elke Bach ,  E. Jelinek ,  A. Kratzer ,  Barbara B.H. Partee
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
Volume:   54
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9789401041423


Pages:   760
Publication Date:   08 October 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Elke Bach ,  E. Jelinek ,  A. Kratzer ,  Barbara B.H. Partee
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
Volume:   54
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.123kg
ISBN:  

9789401041423


ISBN 10:   9401041423
Pages:   760
Publication Date:   08 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. A Note on Qualification and Blankets in Haisla.- 2. On the Absence of Certain Quantifiers in Mohawk.- 3. Quantification in Eskimo: A Challenge for Compositional Semantics.- 4. Remarks on Definiteness in Wartlpiri.- 5. The Variability of Impersonal Subjects.- 6. On Quantifier Strength and Partitive Noun Phrases.- 7. Quantification in Correlatives.- 8. A-Quantifier and Scope in Mayali.- 9. Towards a Typology of Natural Logic.- 10. Universal Quantifiers and Distributivity.- 12. Diachronic Sources ‘All’ and ‘Every’.- 12. Mass and Count Quantifiers.- 13. On the Characterization of the Weak-Strong Distinction.- 14. On the Quantificational Force of English Free Relatives.- 15. Quantification in Straits Salish.- 16. Quantificational Structures and Compositionality.- 17. Bare Noun Phrases, Verbs and Quantification in ASL.- 18. Quantification, Events, and Gerunds.- 19. Domain Restriction in Dynamic Semantics.- 20. The Expression of Quantificational Notions in Asurini do Trocará: Evidence against the Universality of Determiner Quantification.

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'We recommend unreservedly its careful and patient study to anyone with the slightest interest in the empirical facts and/or (their implications for) the formal properties of quantification.' Linguistics, 34 (1996)


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