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Plurality and Quantification (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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Plurality and Quantification (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 69
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The papers in this volume address central issues in the study of
Plurality and Quantification from three different perspectives: *
Algebraic approaches to Plurals and Quantification * Distributivity
and Collectivity: Theoretical Foundations * Distributivity and
Collectivity: Empirical Investigations Algebraic approaches to the
semantics of natural languages were in dependently introduced for
the study of generalized quantification, pred ication,
intensionality, mass terms and plurality. The most prominent modern
advocate for an algebraic theory of plurality (and mass terms) is
certainly Godehard Link. It is indicative of the Wirkungsgeschichte
of Link's work that most of the contributions in this volume take
the logic of plurals proposed by Godehard Link (Link 1983, 1987) as
their foundation or, at the very least, as their point of
reference. Link's own paper in this volume provides a concise
summary of many of the central research issues that have engaged
semanticists during the last decade. Link's paper also contains an
extensive bibliography that provides an excellent resource for
scholars interested in the semantics of plurals. Since we can refer
readers to Link's paper for an excellent survey of the subject
matter of this book, we will limit our attention in this in
troduction to summarizing the individual contributions in this
volume. The book is organized into three main sections; within each
section the papers are ordered alphabetically. However, as in much
of linguistic the orizing, there is an exception: for reasons
pointed out above, Godehard Link's article appears as Chapter 1.
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