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Strategies of Quantification

By George Tsoulas , Kook-Hee Gil , Stephen Harlow

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0199692432, 9780199692439
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1664467 bytes)
Series
Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Pages
388\337
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-09-17 23:27:19
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Типология и сопост

Description

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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