What Counts: Focus and Quantification: 36 - Brossura

Herburger, Elena

 
9780262581851: What Counts: Focus and Quantification: 36
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ISBN 10: 026258185X ISBN 13: 9780262581851
Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2000

Sinossi

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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Informazioni sull?autore

Bradley A. Thayer is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

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Editore
Mit Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2000
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
026258185X
ISBN 13 
9780262581851
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
166
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9780262082877: What Counts: Focus and Quantification: Volume 36

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ISBN 10:  026208287X ISBN 13:  9780262082877
Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 2000
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