Overview
- Provides a comprehensive, detailed and lucid survey of previous approaches to the problem of exceptional wide scope, a major topic in formal semantics
- The author’s carefully motivated and explicated approach defines new standards of argumentation and theory building in a notoriously vague field
Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 86)
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About this book
Addressing an issue that has puzzled the linguistics community for many years, this book offers a novel approach to the exceptional wide scope behaviour of indefinites. It is the first book explicitly dedicated to exceptional wide scope phenomena. Its unique approach offers an explanation for the fact that it is only a proper subset of the indefinites that shows this exceptional wide scope behaviour.
The author draws a careful distinction between genuine and apparent scope readings, a distinction that is usually not taken care of and has thus led to certain confusions. In particular, it is argued that functional readings have to be kept strictly apart from non-functional ones and that all proposals that use functional mechanisms to explain the phenomena at hand face severe problems.
The existing body of literature on the main issues of the book is thoroughly reviewed. This makes the book well suited as background literature for graduate seminars on those topics.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantificational Topics
Book Subtitle: A Scopal Treatment of Exceptional Wide Scope Phenomena
Authors: Cornelia Endriss
Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2303-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2302-5Published: 30 April 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8488-0Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2303-2Published: 08 April 2009
Series ISSN: 0924-4662
Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 306
Topics: Semantics, Theoretical Linguistics