UID:
almahu_9949178818002882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-15604-7
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9786612156045
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90-272-9374-0
Series Statement:
Linguistik Aktuell = v. 84
Content:
This book presents a comprehensive account of quantifier scope in German. The author investigates scope behavior of ordinary quantifiers and negative, adverbial, interrogative, relative and particle quantifiers. The areas which are dealt with include: relative scope in simple sentences, absolute and relative scope in complex sentences, noun-phrase internal scope, and scope behavior of indefinite noun phrases. A theory of explicit and implicit quantification is proposed and a uniform process of scope determination is sketched which encompasses the scope of explicit as well as implicit quantifiers. Quantifier scope is a challenge to linguistic theory as it is a phenomenon which is determined by the interplay of diverse syntactic and semantic factors, which interact in a weighted and cumulative way. The factors' interplay is part of the syntax/semantics-interface, i.e., the constraints relating syntax and semantics, which are considered to be relatively autonomous, parallel levels connected by an interface of correspondence constraints.
Note:
Revised version of the author's Habilitationsschrift--Universitat Tubingen, 1997.
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Quantifier Scope in German -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Preface -- Preliminaries -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.1.1. The empirical issues -- 1.1.2. The theoretical issues -- 1.2. German quantifiers -- 1.2.1. Criteria of identification -- 1.2.2. The classes of quantifiers investigated -- 1.3. Syntactic assumptions -- 1.3.1. Noun phrases -- 1.3.2. Verb phrases and sentences -- 1.4. Semantic assumptions -- 1.4.1. Names -- 1.4.2. Quantifiers -- Notes -- Relative scope -- 2.1. Some basic patterns of Q/Q-interaction -- 2.2. The properties determining relative scope -- 2.2.1. Syntactic constellation -- 2.2.2. Grammatical function -- 2.2.3. Thematic property -- 2.2.4. Distributivity -- 2.2.5. Discourse-binding -- 2.2.6. Definiteness -- 2.2.7. Focus -- 2.2.8. Negation attraction -- 2.3. A linear model of relative scope determination -- 2.3.1. Cumulativity, weights and linear equations -- 2.3.2. The model's predictions -- 2.4. Relative scope and the relation between syntactic and semantic structure -- 2.4.1. A comparison between relative scope and word order determination -- 2.4.2. The correspondence constraints concerning relative scope -- 2.5. The status of linear models -- 2.5.1. Can linear models be explanatorily adequate? -- 2.5.2. Linear models, optimality and smart heuristics -- 2.6. The scope behavior of further types of quantifiers -- 2.6.1. Coordinative quantifiers -- 2.6.2. Quantifiers with focus particles -- 2.6.3. Relative phrases -- Notes -- Absolute scope -- 3.1. The puzzle of clause-boundedness -- 3.1.1. Absolute scope and (in)coherent infinitival constructions -- 3.1.2. Absolute scope and subordinate finite clauses -- 3.2. A model of absolute and relative scope determination -- 3.3. Scope (and syntax) of wh-phrases in situ.
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3.4. Absolute scope and the relation between syntactic and semantic structure -- 3.4.1. From clause-boundedness to phrase-boundedness -- 3.4.2. Absolute scope and quantifier raising -- 3.4.3. Correspondence constraints concerning absolute scope -- 3.4.4. Scope and quantifier storage -- 3.5. Inverse linking -- Notes -- Indefinites and quantifiers -- 4.1. Indefinite quantifiers -- 4.2. Types of indefinites -- 4.2.1. Non-specific indefinites -- 4.2.2. Specific indefinites -- 4.2.3. Some consequences concerning (non-)specific indefinites -- 4.2.4. Generic indefinites -- 4.3. The scope of implicit quantifiers triggered by (in)definites -- 4.4. Indefinites in donkey sentences -- Notes -- Interrogative quantifiers -- 5.1. The pair-list reading as a scope reading -- 5.2. Wh/Q-interaction in German, English and Polish -- 5.3. The semantics of the pair-list reading -- 5.4. Scope and semantics of how many phrases -- Notes -- Alternative scope accounts -- 6.1. Configurational theories -- 6.2. Semantically and pragmatically based theories -- 6.3. Multi-factor theories -- Notes -- Towards a theory of semantic structure -- 7.1. The form of semantic structure -- 7.1.1. Semantic features and semantic structures -- 7.1.2. The semantic characterization of lexical items and syntactic phrases -- 7.2. The interpretation of semantic structure -- 7.3. The construction of semantic structures from syntactic structures -- 7.3.1. Semantic specifications and quantifier stores -- 7.3.2. Implicit quantifiers in semantic structure -- Notes -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-2808-6
Language:
English
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