Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Quantification in the Theory of Grammar

  • Book
  • © 1990

Overview

Authors:
  1. Taisuke Nishigauchi

    1. Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Japan

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 37)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Taisuke Nishigauchi
    Pages 1-13

  3. Subjacency and Logical Form

    • Taisuke Nishigauchi
    Pages 14-74

  4. The Pied-Piping Mechanism

    • Taisuke Nishigauchi
    Pages 75-115

  5. Construing WH

    • Taisuke Nishigauchi
    Pages 116-176

  6. The Case from English: The No Matter Concessive Clause

    • Taisuke Nishigauchi
    Pages 177-201

  7. The Donkey Problem in Japanese

    • Taisuke Nishigauchi
    Pages 202-229

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 230-239
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

In the past few decades, the development of theoretical linguistics has proved to be successful in shedding light on the intricate nature of language and knowledge of grammar, which contributes to a deeper understanding of the human mind. This book discusses various issues in syntax and logical structure of natural language from theoretical perspectives. The primary data on which theoretical claims are made is drawn from Japanese and Japanese-type languages, but it also contains discussion of related phenomena in English which have never been discussed from the same viewpoint in the current literature. Although the book is written in the format of a version of the Extended Standard Theory tradition, informally referred to as the Principles and Parameters Approach or 'Government and Binding (OB) Theory', it should be of interest to a much wider audience. The reader interested in other theoretical frameworks will find the discussion in this book easily translatable in the framework of his or her choice - in fact, I would like to claim that the problems posed by this book are inevitable in any theory of syntax and semantics of natural language.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Japan

    Taisuke Nishigauchi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quantification in the Theory of Grammar

  • Authors: Taisuke Nishigauchi

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1972-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0643-6Published: 28 February 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0644-3Published: 28 February 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1972-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 240

  • Topics: Syntax, Semantics, Japanese

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation