Strategies of Quantification
Published on 21. February 2013
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336 pages
978-0-19-969244-6 (ISBN)
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Quantification has been at the heart of research in the syntax and semantics of natural language since Aristotle. The last few decades have seen an explosion of detailed studies of the syntax and semantics of quantification and its relation to the rest of the theory of grammar, resulting in a highly sophisticated understanding of the mechanisms of quantification. This book considers the ways natural languages vary with respect to their realisation of quantificational notions. Drawing on data from English, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Hausa and others, the authors also link the variation in the expression of quantification to the notions of polarity sensitivity, free-choice and indefiniteness.
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
515 gr
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978-0-19-969244-6 (9780199692446)
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Kook-Hee Gil | Stephen Harlow | George Tsoulas
Strategies of Quantification
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02/2013
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Kook-Hee Gil is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield.
Steve Harlow was senior lecturer in linguistics at the University of York until he retired in 2008. He was principal investigator on the AHRB-funded research project "Strategies of Quantification". His other research interests lie in the syntax of the Celtic languages.
George Tsoulas is a senior lecturer in linguistics at the University of York. After an undergraduate degree in linguistics and literature at the University of Strasbourg he went on to study for a PhD at the University of Paris VIII. His research to date has focused on the syntax/semantics and syntax/pragmatics interfaces, and more specifically on issues of quantification, tense and modality, number and the count/mass distinction, topic/focus articulation, particles, and the nature of pronominal reference.
Steve Harlow was senior lecturer in linguistics at the University of York until he retired in 2008. He was principal investigator on the AHRB-funded research project "Strategies of Quantification". His other research interests lie in the syntax of the Celtic languages.
George Tsoulas is a senior lecturer in linguistics at the University of York. After an undergraduate degree in linguistics and literature at the University of Strasbourg he went on to study for a PhD at the University of Paris VIII. His research to date has focused on the syntax/semantics and syntax/pragmatics interfaces, and more specifically on issues of quantification, tense and modality, number and the count/mass distinction, topic/focus articulation, particles, and the nature of pronominal reference.
Content
1. Introduction ; PART I: CROSSLINGUISTIC STUDIES OF QUANTIFICATION ; 2. Strategie of Quantification in St'at'imcets and the Rest of the World ; 3. Strategies of Quantification in Hausa (Chadic) ; 4. Distributive Quantification by Reduplication in Dravidian ; 5. The Interpretation of Indefinites in the Japanese wh-mo Construction ; 6. At Least, Wenigstens and Company: Negated Universal Quantification and the Typology of Focus Quantifiers ; 7. The Non-uniformity of Wh-indeterminates with Polarity and Free-choice in Chinese ; PART II: QUANTIFICATION, SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE, AND THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE ; 8. Features, Concord, and Quantification: Licensing of conjunctive quantifiers and its implications ; 9. A Cross-linguistic Approach to Mysterious Scope Facts: Structures and interpretation ; 10. Ingredients of Polarity Sensitivity: Bipolar items in Japanese ; 11. All About ALL in (some) Salish Languages ; 12. Binominal Each: A DP that may not be ; References ; Index