Redefining Indefinites

Claire Beyssade

ISBN 10: 9400730012 / ISBN 13: 9789400730014

Edité par Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Apr 2012, 2012

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Neuware -This volume explores the interpretation of indefinites and the constraints on their distribution by paying particular attention to key issues in the interface between syntax and semantics: the relation between the semantic properties of indefinite determiners and the denotation of indefinite DPs, their scope, and their behaviour in generic and conditional sentences. Examples come from French, other Romance languages and English. Central to the proposed analyses is a distinction between two types of entities, individualized entities and amounts. Weak indefinites are analyzed as existential generalized quantifiers over amounts and strong indefinites as either Skolem terms or generalized quantifiers over individualized entities. The up-to-date review of the literature and the new falsifiable proposals contained in this book will be of particular interest to linguistics students and scholars interested in the cross-linguistic semantics of indefinites.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 284 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Redefining Indefinites
• Éditeur: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Apr 2012
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 9400730012
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9789400730014
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 160 H x 19 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 19 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 594 grammes

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This volume explores the interpretation of indefinites and the constraints on their distribution by paying particular attention to key issues in the interface between syntax and semantics: the relation between the semantic properties of indefinite determiners and the denotation of indefinite DPs, their scope, and their behaviour in generic and conditional sentences. Examples come from French, other Romance languages and English. Central to the proposed analyses is a distinction between two types of entities, individualized entities and amounts. Weak indefinites are analyzed as existential generalized quantifiers over amounts and strong indefinites as either Skolem terms or generalized quantifiers over individualized entities. The up-to-date review of the literature and the new falsifiable proposals contained in this book will be of particular interest to linguistics students and scholars interested in the cross-linguistic semantics of indefinites.