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Something out of Nothing: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Implicit Quantification: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface, cartea 38

Autor Ariel Cohen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – iul 2020
Some sentences contain no overt quantifier, yet are interpreted quantificationally, e.g., Plumbers are available (entailing that some plumbers are available), or Plumbers are intelligent (whose entailment is less clear, but seems to be saying that a large number of plumbers are intelligent). Where does the quantifier come from? In this book, Ariel Cohen makes the novel proposal that the quantifier is not simply an empty category, but is generated by reinterpretations mechanisms, which are governed by well specified principles. He demonstrates how the puzzling and sometimes mysterious properties of such sentences can be naturally derived from the reinterpretation mechanisms that generate them. The resulting picture has substantial implications that language contains hidden elements, underlying its surface structure.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004431485
ISBN-10: 9004431489
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface


Cuprins

1 What You See Is Not Always What You Get

2 Reinterpretation Mechanisms
1Reinterpretation
2Type-Shifting
3Predicate transfer

3 Bare Plurals
1The Ambiguity of Bare Plurals
2A Non-quantificational Theory?
3Quantificational Accounts of English Bare Plurals
4Kinds or Properties?
5A Synthesis
6Deciding between the Theories

4 Beyond English Bare Plurals
1Italian Bare Plurals: Direct Kind Predication
2Definites and Type-Shifting
3Italian BP s: Existential Readings
4Italian BP s: Characterizing Generics
5An Account of Italian BP s
6Hungarian Bare Plurals
7Bare Singulars
8Conclusion

5 Generics and Habituals
1Generics and Scope
2Habituals and Scope
3Types of Explanation
4Reinterpretation Mechanisms Revisited
5The Generic Quantifier
6Generics
7Habituals

6 Iterativity
1Durative Adverbials
2The Origins of Iterativity
3Iterativity and Scope
4Alternative Explanations
5Iterativity as a Quantifier

7 The Nature of Implicit Quantification
1Two Implicit Quantifiers
2A Preference for Inference

References
Index

Notă biografică

Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. (1996), Carnegie-Mellon University, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He has published extensively on semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. His is the author of Think Generic, CSLI Publications (1999).