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Generalized Quantifiers

Linguistic and Logical Approaches

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Peter Gärdenfors

    1. Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Sweden

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 31)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Noun Phrases, Generalized Quantifiers and Anaphora

    • Jon Barwise
    Pages 1-29

  3. Towards a Computational Semantics

    • Johan van Benthem
    Pages 31-71

  4. Preliminaries to the Treatment of Generalized Quantifiers in Situation Semantics

    • Robin Cooper
    Pages 73-91

  5. There-Sentences and Generalized Quantifiers

    • Lars G. Johnsen
    Pages 93-107

  6. Unreducible N-Ary Quantifiers in Natural Language

    • Edward L. Keenan
    Pages 109-150

  7. Generalized Quantifiers and Plurals

    • Godehard Link
    Pages 151-180

  8. Natural Language and Generalized Quantifier Theory

    • Sebastian Loebner
    Pages 181-201

  9. Collective Readings of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases

    • Jan Tore Lønning
    Pages 203-235

  10. Noun Phrase Interpretation in Montague Grammar, File Change Semantics, and Situation Semantics

    • Mats Rooth
    Pages 237-268

  11. Branching Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language

    • Dag Westerståhl
    Pages 269-298

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 299-309
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About this book

Some fifteen years ago, research on generalized quantifiers was con­ sidered to be a branch of mathematical logic, mainly carried out by mathematicians. Since then an increasing number of linguists and philosophers have become interested in exploring the relevance of general quantifiers for natural language as shown by the bibliography compiled for this volume. To a large extent, the new research has been inspired by Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper's path-breaking article "Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language" from 1981. A concrete sign of this development was the workshop on this topic at Lund University, May 9-11, 1985, which was organized by Robin Cooper, Elisabet Engdahl, and the present editor. All except two of the papers in this volume derive from that workshop. Jon Barwise's paper in the volume is different from the one he presented in connection with the workshop. Mats Rooth's contribution has been added because of its close relationship with the rest of the papers. The articles have been revised for publication here and the authors have commented on each other's contributions in order to integrate the collection. The organizers of the workshop gratefully acknowledge support from the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Philosophy and the Faculty of Humanities at Lund University, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (through the Wallenberg Foundation), the Swedish Institute, and the Letterstedt Foundation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Sweden

    Peter Gärdenfors

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Generalized Quantifiers

  • Book Subtitle: Linguistic and Logical Approaches

  • Editors: Peter Gärdenfors

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3381-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55608-017-3Published: 30 June 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-55608-018-0Published: 30 June 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3381-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 309

  • Topics: Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Theoretical Linguistics

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