Quantificational Topics - A Scopal Treatment of Exceptional Wide Scope Phenomena (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)

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
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 Promotions
LSN:	90-481-8488-6
Barcode:	9789048184880

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