Ways of Scope Taking
The present volume is as much a book co-authored by all the contributors as it is an edited collection of their papers. Most of the contributors have been involved in regular discussions over the past years, often inspiring the questions, or some aspects of the proposals, in each other's papers...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1997, 1997
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1997 |
| Series: | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Background Notions in Lattice Theory and Generalized Quantifiers
- 2 Variation, Distributivity, and the Illusion of Branching
- 3 Distributivity and Negation: The Syntax of Each and Every
- 4 Strategies for Scope Taking
- 5 Computing Quantifier Scope
- 6 Evaluation Indices and Scope
- 7 Weak Islands and an Algebraic Semantics for Scope Taking
- 8 The Semantics of Event-Related Readings: A Case for Pair-Quantification
- 9 Quantifiers in Pair-List Readings
- 10 The Syntax of Distributivity and Pair-List Readings
- 11 Questions and Generalized Quantifiers
- Author Index