Addressing an issue that has puzzled the linguistics community for
many years, this book offers a novel approach to the exceptional
wide scope behaviour of indefinites. It is the first book
explicitly dedicated to exceptional wide scope phenomena. Its
unique approach offers an explanation for the fact that it is only
a proper subset of the indefinites that shows this exceptional wide
scope behaviour. The author draws a careful distinction between
genuine and apparent scope readings, a distinction that is usually
not taken care of and has thus led to certain confusions. In
particular, it is argued that functional readings have to be kept
strictly apart from non-functional ones and that all proposals that
use functional mechanisms to explain the phenomena at hand face
severe problems. The existing body of literature on the main issues
of the book is thoroughly reviewed. This makes the book well suited
as background literature for graduate seminars on those topics.
General
Imprint: |
Springer
|
Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
Series: |
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 86 |
Release date: |
October 2010 |
First published: |
2009 |
Authors: |
Cornelia Ebert
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
306 |
Edition: |
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009 |
ISBN-13: |
978-90-481-8488-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Language & linguistics >
Semantics (meaning) >
General
|
LSN: |
90-481-8488-6 |
Barcode: |
9789048184880 |
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