Overview
- First study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax
- Wide empirical coverage
- Takes into account the interfaces with semantics and prosody
- Includes a refined view on French wh phrases in-situ
Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 83)
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About this book
This book is the first extensive study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax. It provides a typology of four main quantified noun phrases in French (existential, universal, negative and wh-), detailing their syntactic, semantic and prosodic behaviors and showing that they can be reduced to two classes—Split-DP structures or Floating quantification.
Relying on syntax and semantics, the book establishes a three-way structural typology of wh in-situ phrases and extends it to existentials. It pays special attention to the prosodic properties associated with their different readings and proposes an analysis of the distribution of subextraction and pied-piping. Similarly based on semantic and syntactic tests, the book reveals N(egative) words to be universal Quantifiers. It proposes a new structure of N-words in terms of constituent negation and includes a detailed analysis of the difference between not an N and not all the N in French.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Grammar of French Quantification
Authors: Lena Baunaz
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0621-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0620-0Published: 11 March 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3552-1Published: 21 April 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0621-7Published: 02 March 2011
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 260