Quantification in natural languages

著者

• Bach, Emmon W.

書誌事項

Quantification in natural languages

edited by Emmon Bach ... [et al.]

（Studies in linguistics and philosophy, v. 54）

K. Academic, c1995

• v. 1
• v. 2
• set

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

v. 1 ISBN 9780792331285

内容説明

This collection of papers is the result of putting recent ideas on quantification to work on a wide variety of languages. A central perspective of many of the papers follows the recognition of two broad types of quantificational strategies, one associated with nominal structures and determiners, the other with adverbial and other non-nominal expression ("D-quantifiers" and "A-quantifiers"). The papers demonstrate both the unity and the variety of natural language quantificational forms and meanings. Many of the papers also shed new light on questions of language typology and syntactic and morphological variation. The languages discussed include English, Dutch, Italian, American Sign Language, Hindi and a number of languages of Australia, Greenland and the Americas. These comparative studies provide initial data for a typology of quantificational structures in natural languages, with important implications for the study of universal grammar. The book consists of research papers aimed at linguists, philosophers, and psychologists interested in semantics and linguistic form. An introduction presents a sketch of the background of this research and some of the central issues discussed, with pointers toward the included papers.

目次

Volumes 1 and 2: A Note on Quantification and Blankets in Haisla, E. Bach. On the Absence of Certain Quantifiers in Mohawk, M. Baker. Quantification in Eskimo: a Challenge for Compositional Semantics, M. Bittner. Remarks on Definiteness in Warlpiri, M. Bittner, K. Hale. The Variability of Impersonal Subjects, G. Chierchia. On Quantifier Strength, I. Comorovski. Quantification on Correlatives, V.S. Dayal. A-Quantifiers and Scope in Mayali, N. Evans. Towards a Typology of Natural Logic, L. Faltz. Universal Quantifiers and Distributivity, D. Gil. Diachronic Sources of "all" and "Every", M. Haspelmath. Mass and Count Quantifiers, J. Higginbotham. On the Characterization of the Weak-Strong Distinction, H. de Hoop. On the Quantificational Force of English Free Relatives, P. Jacobson. Quantification in Straits Salish, E. Jelinek. Quantificational Structures and Compositionality, B.H. Partee. Bare Noun Phrases, Verbs, and Quantification in ASL, K. Petronio. Quantification, Events and Gerunds, P. Portner. Domain Restriction in Dynamic Semantics, C. Roberts. The Expression of Quantificational Notions in Asurini do Trocara, M. Damasco Vieira.

巻冊次

v. 2 ISBN 9780792333517

内容説明

This collection of papers is the result of putting recent ideas on quantification to work on a wide variety of languages. A central perspective of many of the papers follows the recognition of two broad types of quantificational strategies, one associated with nominal structures and determiners, the other with adverbial and other non-nominal expression ("D-quantifiers" and "A-quantifiers"). The papers demonstrate both the unity and the variety of natural language quantificational forms and meanings. Many of the papers also shed new light on questions of language typology and syntactic and morphological variation. The languages discussed include English, Dutch, Italian, American Sign Language, Hindi and a number of languages of Australia, Greenland and the Americas. These comparative studies provide initial data for a typology of quantificational structures in natural languages, with important implications for the study of universal grammar. The book consists of research papers aimed at linguists, philosophers, and psychologists interested in semantics and linguistic form. An introduction presents a sketch of the background of this research and some of the central issues discussed, with pointers toward the included papers.

目次

• Volumes 1 and 2: A Note on Quantification and Blankets in Haisla, E. Bach. On the Absence of Certain Quantifiers in Mohawk, M. Baker. Quantification in Eskimo: a Challenge for Compositional Semantics, M. Bittner. Remarks on Definiteness in Warlpiri, M. Bittner, K. Hale. The Variability of Impersonal Subjects, G. Chierchia. On Quantifier Strength, I. Comorovski. Quantification on Correlatives, V.S. Dayal. A-Quantifiers and Scope in Mayali, N. Evans. Towards a Typology of Natural Logic, L. Faltz. Universal Quantifiers and Distributivity, D. Gil. Diachronic Sources of "All" and "Every", M. Haspelmath. Mass and Count Quantifiers, J. Higginbotham. On the Characterization of the Weak-Strong Distinction, H. de Hoop. On the Quantificational Force of English Free Relatives, P. Jacobson. Quantification in Straits Salish, E. Jelinek. Quantificational Structures and Compositionality, B.H. Partee. Bare Noun Phrases, Verbs, and Quantification in ASL
• K. Petronio. Quantification, Events and Gerunds, P. Portner. Domain Restriction in Dynamic Semantics, C. Roberts. The Expression of Quantificational Notions in Asurini do Trocara, M. Damasco Vieira.

巻冊次

set ISBN 9780792333524

内容説明

This volume of papers grew outof a research project on "Cross-Linguistic Quantification" originated by Emmon Bach, Angelika Kratzer and Barbara Partee in 1987 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and supported by National Science Foundation Grant BNS 871999. The publication also reflects directly or indirectly several other related activ ities. Bach, Kratzer, and Partee organized a two-evening symposium on cross-linguistic quantification at the 1988 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans (held without financial support) in order to bring the project to the attention of the linguistic community and solicit ideas and feedback from colleagues who might share our concern for developing a broader typological basis for research in semantics and a better integration of descriptive and theoretical work in the area of quantification in particular. The same trio organized a six-week workshop and open lecture series and related one-day confer ence on the same topic at the 1989 LSA Linguistic Institute at the University of Arizona in Tucson, supported by a supplementary grant, NSF grant BNS-8811250, and Partee offered a seminar on the same topic as part of the Institute course offerings. Eloise Jelinek, who served as a consultant on the principal grant and was a participant in the LSA symposium and the Arizona workshops, joined the group of editors for this volume in 1989.

目次

• Preface. Introduction. A Note on Quantification and Blankets in Haisla
• E. Bach. On the Absence of Certain Quantifiers in Mohawk
• M. Baker. Quantification in Eskimo: a Challenge for Compositional Semantics
• M. Bittner. Remarks on Definiteness in Warlpiri
• M. Bittner, K. Hale. The Variability of Impersonal Subjects
• G. Chierchia. On Quantifier Strength
• I. Comorovski. Quantification on Correlatives
• V.S. Dayal. A-Quantifiers and Scope in Mayali
• N. Evans. Towards a Typology of Natural Logic
• L. Faltz. Universal Quantifiers and Distributivity
• D. Gil. Diachronic Sources of `All' and `Every'
• M. Haspelmath. Mass and Count Quantifiers
• J. Higginbotham. On the Characterization of the Weak--Strong Distinction
• H. de Hoop. On the Quantificational Force of English Free Relatives
• P. Jacobson. Quantification in Straits Salish
• E. Jelinek. Quantificational Structures and Compositionality
• B.H. Partee. Bare Noun Phrases, Verbs, and Quantification in ASL
• K. Petronio. Quantification, Events and Gerunds
• P. Portner. Domain Restriction in Dynamic Semantics
• C. Roberts. The Expression of Quantificational Notions in Asurini do Trocara
• M. Damasco Vieira.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA24930882
• ISBN:
  • 0792331281
  • 0792333519
  • 0792333527
• 出版国コード: ne
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Dordrecht ; Boston
• ページ数/冊数: 2 v. (ix, 756 p.)
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA00047245