This volume explores the interpretation of indefinites and the
constraints on their distribution by paying particular attention to
key issues in the interface between syntax and semantics: the
relation between the semantic properties of indefinite determiners
and the denotation of indefinite DPs, their scope, and their
behaviour in generic and conditional sentences. Examples come from
French, other Romance languages and English. Central to the
proposed analyses is a distinction between two types of entities,
individualized entities and amounts. Weak indefinites are analyzed
as existential generalized quantifiers over amounts and strong
indefinites as either Skolem terms or generalized quantifiers over
individualized entities. The up-to-date review of the literature
and the new falsifiable proposals contained in this book will be of
particular interest to linguistics students and scholars interested
in the cross-linguistic semantics of indefinites.
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