Strategies of Quantification
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2013
337 pages
978-0-19-164363-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Kook-Hee Gil | Stephen Harlow | George Tsoulas
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- General Preface
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I. Cross-Linguistic Studies of Quantification
- 2 Strategies of Quantification in St'át'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, 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
- A
- B
- C
- D
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- F
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- K
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