What Counts: Focus and Quantification - Couverture rigide

Herburger, Elena

 
9780262082877: What Counts: Focus and Quantification
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 026208287X ISBN 13 : 9780262082877
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2000

Synopsis

In What Counts, Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects the pragmatics and truth conditions of a sentence by rearranging its quantificational structure.

Adopting a neo-Davidsonian stance, Herburger claims that various pragmatic and truth-conditional effects of focus sustain a uniform explanation if focus is viewed as imposing structure on otherwise unrestricted quantification. Phenomena discussed include "free" focus, the interaction between focus and negation, the quantificational structure of adverbs of quantification, the semantics of only and even, and the differences between weak and strong determiners.

One of Herburger's aims is to show that a simple semantics, without reliance on such notions as semantic presupposition, can account for the truth-conditional and pragmatic effects of focus. The book will be of interest to anyone exploring the syntax-semantics interface and current theories of quantification.

Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 36

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
026208287X
ISBN 13 
9780262082877
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
184
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780262581851: What Counts: Focus and Quantification

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ISBN 10 :  026258185X ISBN 13 :  9780262581851
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2000
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