Indefinites and the Type of Sets [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Landman Fred
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 401.43; 415
• Soggetto topico: Definiteness (Linguistics); Grammar, Comparative and general; Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun phrase; Semantics; Definiteness (Linguistics) - Noun phrase; Philology & Linguistics; Languages & Literatures
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Indefinites and the Type of Sets; Contents; Acknowledgments; Reading This Book at Different Levels; Introduction; 1 Numerical Adjectives and the Type of Sets; 2 The Adjectival Theory of Indefinite Predicates and Arguments; 2.1 Two Theories of Arguments and Predicates; 2.2 The First Match; 2.3 Whither the Adjectival Theory; 2.4 The Second Match: Predicate-Argument Mismatches; 2.5 Argument Formation; 2.6 Slugging It Out: Conjunctive Predicates; 2.7 Who's the Winner?; 2.8 Syntax-Semantics Mismatches; 2.9 Sentence Adverbials inside Noun Phrase Conjunctions ; 3 The Variable Constraint on Predicates and There-Insertion Subjects3.1 Predicates; 3.2 There-Insertion; 3.3 There-Insertion Contexts and Predication Contexts; 3.4 Role-value Predicates; 3.5 Wh-questions and Individual Variables; 4 Problems for Weak-Strong Analyses of There-Insertion Subjects; 4.1 The Proposal in a Nutshell; 4.2 Types versus Semantic Properties; 4.3 Worry One: The Quantificational Class is Small and Heterogeneous; 4.4 Worry Two: Quantificational Noun Phrases and Definites that are not Presuppositional; 4.5 Worry Three: The Infelicity of Partitives ; 4.6 Worry Four: een mop van some en most (a joke about some and most)4.7 Worry Five: The Semantic Property of There-Insertion Contexts that Strong Noun Phrases are Supposed to be Incompatible with; 4.8 A Note on Collective Interpretations; 5 There-Insertion Subjects as Subjects Adjoined to Verb Phrases; 5.1 Thematic Constraints; 5.2 Flip-flop; 5.3 The Semantics from the Adjoined Indefinite Upwards; 5.4 Non-thematic Subjects; 6 There-Insertion Subjects Adjoined to Saturated Predicates; 6.1 Saturated and Unsaturated One-Place Predicates; 6.2 Predicate Formation ; 6.3 Episodic Predicates, Passive Verbs, and Unaccusative Verbs6.4 Saturated One-Place Predicates; 6.5 Adjunction to Saturated One-Place Predicates; 6.6 The Predication Head; 6.7 Subject-Verb Agreement and Theology; 7 Some Questions about There-Insertion in Dutch; 8 The Problem of Negative Noun Phrases; 8.1 Negative Noun Phrases in Argument Position; 8.2 Negative Noun Phrases in Predicate and Adjunct Position; 8.3 Semantic Break-up; 8.4 The Evidence for Semantic Break-up; 8.5 The Problem of Negative Noun Phrases inside Conjunctions ; 8.6 The Problem of Exception Phrases Modifying Nominal Negation9 Relational Indefinites and Semantic Incorporation; 9.1 The Data; 9.2 Dethematicization and Rethematicization through Semantic Incorporation; 9.3 Incorporation in Verbs of Change of Possession; 10 Definite Time-Adverbials and Event Measures; 10.1 Rothstein's Analysis of Bare Noun Phrase Adverbials; 10.2 Degree Relatives: Grosu and Landman's Analysis; 10.3 Solving the Puzzle for Rothstein's Analysis; 11 Indefinite Time-Adverbials and the Counting-Grid; 11.1 Indefinite Counting Adverbials; 11.2 Time as a Classifier ; 11.3 Slashed Modifier Categories
• Sommario/riassunto: Indefinites and the Type of Sets explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects. Provides an introduction to aspects of the semantics of noun phrases, as well as comparing alternate theories. Explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects. Written accessibly by one of the world's most prominent formal semanticists. Useful for students and scholars in formal semantics as well as the neighboring fields of syntax, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language.
• Titolo autorizzato: Indefinites and the Type of Sets
• ISBN: 1-281-32146-X; 9786611321468; 0-470-75931-3; 0-470-75930-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910145556803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Explorations in Semantics