31.2219, Books: Something out of Nothing: Cohen

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Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 12:51:23
From: Clovis Jaillet [Jaillet at Brill.com]
Subject: Something out of Nothing: Cohen

 


Title: Something out of Nothing 
Subtitle: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Implicit Quantification 
Series Title: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: https://brill.com/view/title/56264 


Author: Ariel Cohen

Electronic: ISBN:  9789004432598 Pages: 173 Price: Europe EURO 110
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004431485 Pages: 173 Price: Europe EURO 110


Abstract:

Some sentences contain no overt quantifier, yet are interpreted
quantificationally, e.g., Plumbers are available (entailing that some plumbers
are available), or Plumbers are intelligent (whose entailment is less clear,
but seems to be saying that a large number of plumbers are intelligent). Where
does the quantifier come from? In this book, Ariel Cohen makes the novel
proposal that the quantifier is not simply an empty category, but is generated
by reinterpretations mechanisms, which are governed by well specified
principles. He demonstrates how the puzzling and sometimes mysterious
properties of such sentences can be naturally derived from the
reinterpretation mechanisms that generate them. The resulting picture has
substantial implications that language contains hidden elements, underlying
its surface structure.
 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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