Quantifier scope in German
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Quantifier scope in German
（Linguistik aktuell, v. 84）
J. Benjamins, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-309) and index
"Revised version of my Habilitationsschrift...Universität Tübingen"--Pref.
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
- 1. Abbreviations and symbols
- 2. Preface
- 3. Preliminaries
- 4. Relative scope
- 5. Absolute scope
- 6. Indefinites and quantifiers
- 7. Interrogative quantifiers
- 8. Alternative scope accounts
- 9. Towards a theory of semantic structure
- 10. Concluding remarks
- 11. References
- 12. Index
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