Something Out of Nothing: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Implicit Quantification
Autor Ariel Cohenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 iul 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004431485
ISBN-10: 9004431489
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 158 x 237 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Brill
ISBN-10: 9004431489
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 158 x 237 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Brill
Cuprins
1 What You See Is Not Always What You Get
2 Reinterpretation Mechanisms
1Reinterpretation
2Type-Shifting
3Predicate transfer
3 Bare Plurals
1The Ambiguity of Bare Plurals
2A Non-quantificational Theory?
3Quantificational Accounts of English Bare Plurals
4Kinds or Properties?
5A Synthesis
6Deciding between the Theories
4 Beyond English Bare Plurals
1Italian Bare Plurals: Direct Kind Predication
2Definites and Type-Shifting
3Italian BP s: Existential Readings
4Italian BP s: Characterizing Generics
5An Account of Italian BP s
6Hungarian Bare Plurals
7Bare Singulars
8Conclusion
5 Generics and Habituals
1Generics and Scope
2Habituals and Scope
3Types of Explanation
4Reinterpretation Mechanisms Revisited
5The Generic Quantifier
6Generics
7Habituals
6 Iterativity
1Durative Adverbials
2The Origins of Iterativity
3Iterativity and Scope
4Alternative Explanations
5Iterativity as a Quantifier
7 The Nature of Implicit Quantification
1Two Implicit Quantifiers
2A Preference for Inference
References
Index
2 Reinterpretation Mechanisms
1Reinterpretation
2Type-Shifting
3Predicate transfer
3 Bare Plurals
1The Ambiguity of Bare Plurals
2A Non-quantificational Theory?
3Quantificational Accounts of English Bare Plurals
4Kinds or Properties?
5A Synthesis
6Deciding between the Theories
4 Beyond English Bare Plurals
1Italian Bare Plurals: Direct Kind Predication
2Definites and Type-Shifting
3Italian BP s: Existential Readings
4Italian BP s: Characterizing Generics
5An Account of Italian BP s
6Hungarian Bare Plurals
7Bare Singulars
8Conclusion
5 Generics and Habituals
1Generics and Scope
2Habituals and Scope
3Types of Explanation
4Reinterpretation Mechanisms Revisited
5The Generic Quantifier
6Generics
7Habituals
6 Iterativity
1Durative Adverbials
2The Origins of Iterativity
3Iterativity and Scope
4Alternative Explanations
5Iterativity as a Quantifier
7 The Nature of Implicit Quantification
1Two Implicit Quantifiers
2A Preference for Inference
References
Index
Notă biografică
Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. (1996), Carnegie-Mellon University, is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He has published extensively on semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. His is the author of Think Generic, CSLI Publications (1999).