
Quantifier Scope in German
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- Quantifier Scope in German
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Abbreviations and symbols
- Preface
- Preliminaries
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.1.1. The empirical issues
- 1.1.2. The theoretical issues
- 1.2. German quantifiers
- 1.2.1. Criteria of identification
- 1.2.2. The classes of quantifiers investigated
- 1.3. Syntactic assumptions
- 1.3.1. Noun phrases
- 1.3.2. Verb phrases and sentences
- 1.4. Semantic assumptions
- 1.4.1. Names
- 1.4.2. Quantifiers
- Notes
- Relative scope
- 2.1. Some basic patterns of Q/Q-interaction
- 2.2. The properties determining relative scope
- 2.2.1. Syntactic constellation
- 2.2.2. Grammatical function
- 2.2.3. Thematic property
- 2.2.4. Distributivity
- 2.2.5. Discourse-binding
- 2.2.6. Definiteness
- 2.2.7. Focus
- 2.2.8. Negation attraction
- 2.3. A linear model of relative scope determination
- 2.3.1. Cumulativity, weights and linear equations
- 2.3.2. The model's predictions
- 2.4. Relative scope and the relation between syntactic and semantic structure
- 2.4.1. A comparison between relative scope and word order determination
- 2.4.2. The correspondence constraints concerning relative scope
- 2.5. The status of linear models
- 2.5.1. Can linear models be explanatorily adequate?
- 2.5.2. Linear models, optimality and smart heuristics
- 2.6. The scope behavior of further types of quantifiers
- 2.6.1. Coordinative quantifiers
- 2.6.2. Quantifiers with focus particles
- 2.6.3. Relative phrases
- Notes
- Absolute scope
- 3.1. The puzzle of clause-boundedness
- 3.1.1. Absolute scope and (in)coherent infinitival constructions
- 3.1.2. Absolute scope and subordinate finite clauses
- 3.2. A model of absolute and relative scope determination
- 3.3. Scope (and syntax) of wh-phrases in situ
- 3.4. Absolute scope and the relation between syntactic and semantic structure
- 3.4.1. From clause-boundedness to phrase-boundedness
- 3.4.2. Absolute scope and quantifier raising
- 3.4.3. Correspondence constraints concerning absolute scope
- 3.4.4. Scope and quantifier storage
- 3.5. Inverse linking
- Notes
- Indefinites and quantifiers
- 4.1. Indefinite quantifiers
- 4.2. Types of indefinites
- 4.2.1. Non-specific indefinites
- 4.2.2. Specific indefinites
- 4.2.3. Some consequences concerning (non-)specific indefinites
- 4.2.4. Generic indefinites
- 4.3. The scope of implicit quantifiers triggered by (in)definites
- 4.4. Indefinites in donkey sentences
- Notes
- Interrogative quantifiers
- 5.1. The pair-list reading as a scope reading
- 5.2. Wh/Q-interaction in German, English and Polish
- 5.3. The semantics of the pair-list reading
- 5.4. Scope and semantics of how many phrases
- Notes
- Alternative scope accounts
- 6.1. Configurational theories
- 6.2. Semantically and pragmatically based theories
- 6.3. Multi-factor theories
- Notes
- Towards a theory of semantic structure
- 7.1. The form of semantic structure
- 7.1.1. Semantic features and semantic structures
- 7.1.2. The semantic characterization of lexical items and syntactic phrases
- 7.2. The interpretation of semantic structure
- 7.3. The construction of semantic structures from syntactic structures
- 7.3.1. Semantic specifications and quantifier stores
- 7.3.2. Implicit quantifiers in semantic structure
- Notes
- Concluding remarks
- References
- Index
- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
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