
The Grammar of French Quantification
Lena Baunaz(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 11. March 2011
Book
Hardback
XII, 260 pages
978-94-007-0620-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the first extensive study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax. It provides a typology of four main quantified noun phrases in French (existential, universal, negative and wh-), detailing their syntactic, semantic and prosodic behaviors and showing that they can be reduced to two classes-Split-DP structures or Floating quantification.Relying on syntax and semantics, the book establishes a three-way structural typology of wh in-situ phrases and extends it to existentials. It pays special attention to the prosodic properties associated with their different readings and proposes an analysis of the distribution of subextraction and pied-piping. Similarly based on semantic and syntactic tests, the book reveals N(egative) words to be universal Quantifiers. It proposes a new structure of N-words in terms of constituent negation and includes a detailed analysis of the difference between not an N and not all the N in French.
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Series
Edition
2011 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XII, 260 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
564 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-007-0620-0 (9789400706200)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-0621-7
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Content
List of Abbreviations.- Chapter 1.- Chapter 2.- Chapter 3.- Chapter 4.- Chapter 5.- Chapter 6.- Appendix.- References.- Index.