Strategies of Quantification by Kook-Hee Gil
Quantification has been at the heart of research in the syntax and semantics of natural language since Aristotle. The last few decades have seen an explosion of detailed studies of the syntax and semantics of quantification and its relation to the rest of the theory of grammar, resulting in a highly sophisticated understanding of the mechanisms of quantification. This book considers the ways natural languages vary with respect to their realisation of quantificational notions. Drawing on data from English, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Hausa and others, the authors also link the variation in the expression of quantification to the notions of polarity sensitivity, free-choice and indefiniteness.-
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
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Definiteness in Balkan Romance
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Nominalization
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The Left Edge Ban and the Architecture of the Grammar
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Causation in Grammatical Structures
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Count and Mass Across Languages
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The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages
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Encoding Events
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The Grammar of the Utterance
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Parts of a Whole
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Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers
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Telicity, Change, and State
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Modals and Conditionals
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Concealed Questions
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Interfaces in Linguistics
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The Complementizer Phase
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Control and Restructuring
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The Logic of Pronominal Resumption
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Gender and Noun Classification
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Contrast and Representations in Syntax
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The Grammar of Expressivity
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Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives
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Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization
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Lexical Plurals
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The Syntax of Sentential Stress
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The Verbal Complex in Romance
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Diagnosing Syntax
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Phonetics, Phonology, and Cognition
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External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations
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Adjectives and Adverbs
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Sluicing: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
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The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence
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Optimality Theoretic Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
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Continuations and Natural Language
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The Unaccusativity Puzzle
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Sentence and Discourse
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The Syntax of Silence
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Canonical Forms in Prosodic Morphology
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Genericity
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Modality Across Syntactic Categories
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The Syntax of Roots and the Roots of Syntax
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Ways of Structure Building
Kook-Hee Gil is a Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield.
Steve Harlow was senior lecturer in linguistics at the University of York until he retired in 2008. He was principal investigator on the AHRB-funded research project "Strategies of Quantification". His other research interests lie in the syntax of the Celtic languages.
George Tsoulas is a senior lecturer in linguistics at the University of York. After an undergraduate degree in linguistics and literature at the University of Strasbourg he went on to study for a PhD at the University of Paris VIII. His research to date has focused on the syntax/semantics and syntax/pragmatics interfaces, and more specifically on issues of quantification, tense and modality, number and the count/mass distinction, topic/focus articulation, particles, and the nature of pronominal reference.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199692446 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199692440 |
| Title | Strategies of Quantification |
| Author | Kook-Hee Gil |
| Series | Oxford Studies In Theoretical Linguistics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2013-02-21 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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