Quantifier scope in German / / Jürgen Pafel

• Autore: Pafel Jürgen <1957->
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub., , 2005; ©2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages)
• Disciplina: 435
• Soggetto topico: German language - Quantifiers; Grammar, Comparative and general - Quantifiers; German language - Syntax
• Note generali: Revised version of the author's Habilitationsschrift--Universität Tübingen, 1997.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Quantifier scope in German
• ISBN: 1-282-15604-7; 9786612156045; 90-272-9374-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783513403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell ; ; Bd. 84.