17.357, Books: Ling Theories/Semantics/Syntax, German: Pafel

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Date: 30-Jan-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Quantifier Scope in German: Pafel 

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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:15:24
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Quantifier Scope in German: Pafel 

Title: Quantifier Scope in German 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 84  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%2084 

Author: Jürgen Pafel, University of Stuttgart

Hardback: ISBN: 9027228086 Pages: xvi,312 Price: U.S. $ 156.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027228086 Pages: xvi,312 Price: Europe EURO 130.00

Abstract:

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. 

Table of contents

Abbreviations and symbols  ix-xi  
Preface  xiii-xvi  
Preliminaries  1-49  
Relative scope  51-136  
Absolute scope  137-178  
Indefinites and quantifiers  179-213  
Interrogative quantifiers  215-235  
Alternative scope accounts  237-260  
Towards a theory of semantic structure  261-289  
Concluding remarks  291-292  
References  293-309  
Index  311-312 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): German, Standard (deu)

Written In: English  (eng)

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