ISBN:
9789400726819
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XII, 970p. 10 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 90
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. Handbook of quantifiers in natural langauge ; volume 1: Handbook of quantifiers in natural language
Keywords:
Semantics
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Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
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Linguistics
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Linguistics
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Linguistics Philosophy
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Semantics
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Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Quantor
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Kontrastive Linguistik
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Quantor
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Kontrastive Linguistik
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Denis Paperno
Abstract:
Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors. Focusing on the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions, the book explores 17 languages including German, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Malagasy, Hebrew, Pima, Basque, and more. The language data sets enable detailed crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features. These include semantic classes of quantifiers (generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, partitive), syntactically complex quantifiers (intensive modification, Boolean compounding, exception phrases) and several others such as quantifier scope ambiguities, quantifier float, and binary quantifiers. Its theory-independent content extends earlier work by Matthewson (2008) and Bach et al. (1995), making this handbook suitable for linguists, semanticians, philosophers of language and logicians alike. Edward L. Keenan is Distinguished Professor of linguistics at theUniversity of California at Los Angeles. He received his PhD in Formal Linguistics from The University of Pennsylvania in 1969 for a thesis on A Presupposition Logic for Natural Language. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published in numerous areas of linguistics, including syntactic typology, formal semantics, theoretical syntax, historical syntax, and Austronesian linguistics. He has co-authored two books: Boolean Semantics for Natural Language (1985), with Leonard Faltz, and Bare Grammar: Lectures on Linguistic Invariants, with Edward P. Stabler (2003). Denis Paperno is a graduate of the Moscow State University andcurrently a PhD candidate at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has done fieldwork in the Komi Republic, the Udmurt Republic, the Caucasus, and W. Africa and has written a grammar of Beng (Mande; Cote d'Ivoire) (in Russian). In addition to African linguistics he has published in semantics and syntactic typology.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction; How to Read This Book; Some (Un)Familiar Notation; Cross Chapter Diversity; References; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: The Quantifier Questionnaire; 1.1 Generalized Existential (Intersective) Quantifiers; 1.1.1 D-Quantifiers; 1.1.2 A-Quantifiers; 1.2 Generalized Universal (Co-intersective) Quantifiers; 1.2.1 D-Quantifiers; 1.2.2 A-Quantifiers; 1.3 Proportional Quantification; 1.3.1 D-Quantifiers; 1.3.2 A-Quantifiers; 1.4 Morpho-Syntactically Complex Quantifiers; 1.4.1 Complex D-Quantifiers; 1.4.1.1 Cardinal Quantifiers; 1.4.1.2 Value Judgment Cardinals
Description / Table of Contents:
1.4.1.3 Exception Modifiers1.4.1.4 Proportional Quantifiers; 1.4.1.5 Boolean Compounds; 1.4.1.6 Partitives; 1.4.2 Complex A-Quantifiers; 1.4.2.1 A-Quantifiers; 1.4.2.2 Boolean Compounds; II Selected Topics; 1.5 Comparative Quantifiers; 1.6 Type (2) Quantifiers; 1.7 Distributive Numerals and Binominal Each; 1.8 Mass Quantifiers and Noun Classifiers; 1.9 Existential Constructions; 1.10 `Floating' Quantifiers; 1.11 Distribution of Quantifiers; 1.11.1 Bare Qs as Predicates; 1.11.2 Can Bare Qs Function as Arguments?; 1.12 Relations Between Lexical Universal, Existential and Interrogative Pronouns
Description / Table of Contents:
1.13 Decreasing D-Quantifiers1.13.1 Does Your L Have Quantifiers Which Build Decreasing NPs?; 1.13.2 If Your L Has Decreasing NPs Do They License Negative Polarity Items?; 1.14 Distribution; 1.14.1 Grammatical Roles; 1.14.2 Special Positions; 1.15 Scope Ambiguities; 1.16 One to One Dependency; 1.17 Rate Phrases; 1.18 Some Concluding Spot Checks; References; Chapter 2: Quantifiers in Adyghe; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Adyghe Grammar: Some Background; 2.2.1 The asime Alternation: A Test for Syntactic Category; Three Basic Classes of Quantifiers; 2.3 Generalized Existential (Intersective) Quantifiers
Description / Table of Contents:
2.3.1 D-Quantifiers2.3.1.1 Form of Existential Sentences; 2.3.1.2 Affirmative/Negative Existentials; 2.3.1.3 Pivot Position and Weak Determiners; 2.3.1.4 Numerals and Modified Numerals; 2.3.1.5 Value-Judgment Cardinals; 2.3.1.6 Interrogatives; 2.3.1.7 Boolean Compounds; 2.3.1.8 Numeral Classifiers; 2.3.1.9 Container Expressions; 2.3.1.10 Measure Phrases; 2.3.1.11 Units of Time and Distance; 2.3.2 A-Quantifiers; 2.4 Generalized Universal (Co-intersective) Quantifiers; 2.4.1 D-Quantifiers; 2.4.2 A-Quantifiers; 2.4.3 Forming Complex Universal Quantifiers; 2.5 Proportional Quantifiers
Description / Table of Contents:
2.5.1 D-Quantifiers2.5.2 A-Quantifiers; 2.6 Follow-Up Questions; 2.6.1 Some Background; 2.6.1.1 Definite NPs; 2.6.1.2 Generic NPs; 2.6.2 Monomorphemic and Simplex Quantifiers; 2.6.2.1 Selectional Properties of D-Quantifiers; 2.6.3 Decreasing QNPs: Forming Decreasing QNPs - NPI Licensing; 2.6.4 Boolean Compounds; 2.6.4.1 D-Quantifiers; 2.6.4.2 A-Quantifiers; 2.6.5 Exception Phrases; 2.6.6 Only; 2.6.7 Partitives; 2.6.8 Quantifiers as Predicates; 2.6.8.1 Quantifiers as DPs; 2.6.9 Distribution; 2.6.9.1 Scope Ambiguities; 2.6.9.2 Numbers; 2.6.9.3 Forcing Collective/Distributive Readings
Description / Table of Contents:
2.6.9.4 Modified Numerals in Object Position
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Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-2681-9
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