Non-definiteness and plurality [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Svetlana Vogeleer, Liliane Tasmowski |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 358 p |
Disciplina | 401/.43 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
VogeleerSv (Svetlana)
TasmowskiLiliane |
Collana | Linguistik aktuell |
Soggetto topico |
Definiteness (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general - Number Grammar, Comparative and general - Numerals Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-15529-6
9786612155291 90-272-9317-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454327903321 |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Non-definiteness and plurality [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Svetlana Vogeleer, Liliane Tasmowski |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 358 p |
Disciplina | 401/.43 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
VogeleerSv (Svetlana)
TasmowskiLiliane |
Collana | Linguistik aktuell |
Soggetto topico |
Definiteness (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general - Number Grammar, Comparative and general - Numerals Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect |
ISBN |
1-282-15529-6
9786612155291 90-272-9317-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782169803321 |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Non-definiteness and plurality / / edited by Svetlana Vogeleer, Liliane Tasmowski |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 358 p |
Disciplina | 401/.43 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
VogeleerSv (Svetlana)
TasmowskiLiliane |
Collana | Linguistik aktuell |
Soggetto topico |
Definiteness (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general - Number Grammar, Comparative and general - Numerals Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect |
ISBN |
1-282-15529-6
9786612155291 90-272-9317-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Non-definiteness and Plurality -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Non-definiteness, plurality, and incorporation -- 1.1. Peculiarities of bare plurals -- 1.2. BPs denote properties -- 1.3. Non-definites and incorporated nominals -- 1.4. Incorporation: Summary and open questions -- 2. Alternatives to the incorporation approach: Relating non-definiteness and plurality to aspect -- 3. Numerical non-definites -- 3.1. Are numericals (generalized weak) quantifiers? -- 3.2. What kind of object is counted? -- 3.3. Can numerical noun phrases take wide scope? -- 3.4. Are three boys exactly three or at least three? -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- I. Non-definiteness, Plurality, and Incorporation -- The meaningful bounds of incorporation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Semantics -- 3. What is 'incorporated'? -- 4. Restriction and incorporation -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Bare nouns, number and types of incorporation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The distribution of bare plurals and bare singulars -- 2.1. Bare plurals -- 2.2. Restrictions on the distribution of bare singulars -- 2.3. Contexts that allow bare singular objects -- 2.4. Crosslinguistic variation -- 2.5. Summary -- 3. Syntactic category and syntactic composition of bare singulars and bare plurals -- 3.1. The syntactic category of bare nouns -- 3.2. Syntactic category and distribution -- 3.3. Pseudo-incorporation of bare singulars -- 3.4. Subjects cannot be pseudo-incorporated -- 3.5. Conclusions -- 4. Semantic type and composition of bare singulars and bare plurals -- 4.1. Property denotation and the bare plurals vs. bare singulars distinction -- 4.2. Existential bare plurals vs. bare singulars: Sets vs. properties -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- The unmarked determiner -- 1. Introduction.
2. Number interpretation -- 2.1. Number interpretation in Farkas & -- de Swart (2003) -- 2.2. Tasks a theory of number interpretation has to accomplish -- 2.3. Account -- 2.4. Plural forms are not ambiguous -- 2.5. When is a plural inclusive and when is it not? -- 2.6. Conclusion -- 2.7. An Optimality-theoretic account of number interpretation -- 3. A(n) as the least marked indefinite determiner -- 3.1. Definiteness -- 3.2. Partitives -- 3.3. Functional constraints -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Bare objects in Korean -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries -- 2.1. Subject and object marking in Korean -- 2.2. Focus structure -- 2.3. F-structure marking in Korean -- 3. Bare objects, incorporation and referentiality -- 3.1. Leul-objects and bare objects -- 3.2. Correlates of object bareness -- 3.3. Bare objects and semantic incorporation -- 3.4. Bare objects and referentiality -- 4. Reconciling results -- Notes -- References -- Bare plurals in object position -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hate and know: Existential and generic readings -- 3. A topic-based account: Cohen & -- Erteschik-Shir (2002) -- 4. A closer look at the data -- 5. Classification of predicates -- 6. Situation-semantic analysis -- 7. Final classification of predicates -- 8. Why do the psych-ES verbs lack eventuality arguments? -- 9. The existential inference: (How) does it relate to topic/focus? -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- II. Alternatives to the Incorporation Approach -- Aspectual implications of the semantics of plural indefinites -- 1. Indefiniteness, plurality, and aspect -- 1.1. The general perspective -- 1.2. Two classical questions and two basic assumptions -- 2. The role of des NPs in the telicity/atelicity contrast -- 2.1. The weak quantificational force of `des' -- 2.2. Weak quantificational force and the telicity/atelicity contrast. 2.3. Indefinites lack determined reference -- 2.4. The combination of indefiniteness and plurality leads to atelicity -- 3. Des NPs in bare habituals -- 3.1. Homogeneous reference and plurality -- 3.2. Against a number-neutral semantics for des NPs -- 3.3. Habitual sentences as a temporal version of the dependent readings -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Indefinites, quantifiers and pluractionals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Motion-verb periphrases as the expression of temporal pluractional operators -- 3. The scope of pluractional operators -- 4. Scope effects and the nature of event pluralities -- 4.1. Motion-verb periphrases and nominal arguments -- 4.2. Sums and groups in the event domain -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Generic sentences and bare plurals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Genericity -- 3. Bare plurals -- 4. Two problems involving bare plurals and generic sentences -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- III. Numerical Non-definites -- Indefinite time phrases, in situ scope, and dual-perspective intensionality -- 1. The empty-preposition analysis and its problems -- 2. Discussing the data -- 2.1. Definiteness effects -- 2.2. Scope dependencies -- 2.3. Conclusion -- 3. An outline of my analysis -- 4. Dual-perspective intensionality -- 5. Formalizing dual-perspective intensionality -- 6. The analysis -- 7. The analysis predicts the correct scope dependencies -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Identity of the domain of quantification for numerals -- 1. Traditional analysis of numeral quantifiers -- 2. Numeral quantification in Japanese -- 3. Numeral quantification in English -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Scope shift with numeral indefinites -- 1. The problem: Scope shift with plural numeral indefinites. 2. A puzzle: The subject effect disappears when it is not distributive -- 3. A processing account -- 3.1. A background digression: Scope shift is a costly operation -- 3.2. The size of the reference set -- Notes -- References -- Take 'five' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Type shifting and polysemy -- 3. Theories in four flavours -- 4. Not just a matter of taste -- 4.1. Entailment patterns -- 4.2. Redundancy arguments -- 4.3. Predicates vs. quantifiers -- 4.4. Experimental evidence -- 4.5. 'At least' vs. 'at most' readings -- 5. Chocolate wins -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The semantics of paranumerals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The semantics of (bare) numerals: A quick overview -- 3. Numerical comparatives: Plus de (`more than'), moins de (`less than') -- 4. Set comparators: Au moins (`at least'), au plus (`at most') -- 5. Summary: A brief comparison of numerals and paranumerals -- 6. Some paranumerals resisting classification -- 6.1. Exactement ('exactly') -- 6.2. Environ, à peu près ('about') -- 6.3. En tout ('in all') -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today. |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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