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UNINA9910783513403321 |
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Autore |
Pafel Jürgen <1957-> |
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Titolo |
Quantifier scope in German / / Jürgen Pafel |
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Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub., , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-15604-7 |
9786612156045 |
90-272-9374-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) |
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Collana |
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Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 84 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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German language - Quantifiers |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Quantifiers |
German language - Syntax |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Revised version of the author's Habilitationsschrift--Universität Tübingen, 1997. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book presents a comprehensive account of quantifier scope in German. The author investigates scope behavior of ordinary quantifiers and negative, adverbial, interrogative, relative and particle quantifiers. The areas which are dealt with include: relative scope in simple sentences, absolute and relative scope in complex sentences, noun-phrase internal scope, and scope behavior of indefinite noun phrases. A theory of explicit and implicit quantification is proposed and a uniform process of scope determination is sketched which encompasses the scope of explicit as well as implicit quantifiers. Quantifier scope is a challenge to linguistic theory as it is a phenomenon which is determined by the interplay of diverse syntactic and semantic factors, which interact in a weighted and cumulative way. The factors' interplay is part of the syntax/semantics-interface, i.e., the constraints relating syntax and semantics, which are considered to be relatively autonomous, parallel levels connected by an interface of correspondence constraints. |
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