31.3378, Books: Quantification and scales in change: Gergel, Watkins (eds.)

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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:14:18
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Quantification and scales in change: Gergel, Watkins (eds.)

 


Title: Quantification and scales in change 
Series Title: Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/252 


Editor: Remus Gergel
Editor: Jonathan Watkins

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961102655 Pages: 248 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

This volume contains thematic papers on semantic change which emerged from the
second edition of Formal Diachronic Semantics held at Saarland University. Its
authorship ranges from established scholars in the field of language change to
advanced PhD students whose contributions have equally qualified and have been
selected after a two-step peer-review process.
The key foci are variablity and diachronic trajectories in scale structures
and quantification, but readers will also find a variety of further (and
clearly non-disjoint) issues covered including reference, modality, givenness,
presuppositions, alternatives in language change, temporality, epistemic
indefiniteness, as well as - in more general terms - the interfaces of
semantics with syntax, pragmatics and morphology. 
Given the nature of the field, the contributions are primarily based on
original corpus studies (in one case also on synchronic experimental data) and
present a series of new findings and theoretical analyses of several
languages, first and foremost from the Germanic and Romance subbranches of
Indo-European (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) and from Semitic
(with an analysis of universal quantification in Biblical Hebrew).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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