21.5015, Books: Semantics/Syntax: Szabolcsi

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Date: 11-Dec-2010
From: Joyce Reid [jreid at cambridge.org]
Subject: Quantification: Szabolcsi

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Title: Quantification 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org

Author: Anna Szabolcsi

Hardback: ISBN:  9780521887960 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9780521887960 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 60.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521715935 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521715935 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 38.99

Abstract:

Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both 
sentence structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification 
starting with the foundational work in the 1970s. It paints a vivid picture of 
generalized quantifiers and Boolean semantics. It explains how the discovery 
of diverse scope behaviour in the 1990s transformed the view of 
quantification, and how the study of the internal composition of quantifiers 
has become central in recent years. It presents different approaches to the 
same problems, and links modern logic and formal semantics to advances in 
generative syntax. A unique feature of the book is that it systematically 
brings cross-linguistic data to bear on the theoretical issues, covering French, 
German, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Japanese, Telugu (Dravidian), and 
Shupamem (Grassfield Bantu) and points to formal semantic literature 
involving quantification in around thirty languages. 

1. What this book is about and how to use it; 
2. Generalized quantifiers and their elements: operators and their scopes; 
3. Generalized quantifiers in non-nominal domains; 
4. Some empirically significant properties of quantifiers and determiners; 
5. Potential challenges for generalized quantifiers; 
6. Scope is not uniform and not a primitive; 
7. Existential scope versus distributive scope; 
8. Distributivity and scope; 
9. Bare numeral indefinites; 
10. Modified numerals; 
11. Clause-internal scopal diversity; 
12. Towards a compositional semantics of quantifier words. 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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