Date: 18-Apr-2006 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Bare Plurals, Indefinites, and Weak–Strong Distinction: Vogeleer (Ed)
Title: Bare Plurals, Indefinites, and Weak–Strong Distinction
Series Title: Belgian Journal of Linguistics 19
Published: 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins
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Editor: Svetlana Vogeleer, Free University of Brussels
Paperback: ISBN: 9027226792 Pages: 265 Price: U.S. $ 102.00
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Abstract:
As of Volume 9 (1994/95) John Benjamins Publishing Company is the official publisher of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics, the annual publication of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Each volume is topical and includes selected papers from the international meetings organised by the LSB.
Table of contents
Introduction Svetlana Vogeleer v-viii Part One - Bare Plurals and Indefinites The Role of Semantic Type in Differential Object Marking Tonia Bleam 3-27 On Existential Bare Plural 'Subjects': They Don't Exist! Dalina Kallulli 29-57 Dutch Bare Plurals, Faded Partitives and Subject-Object Asymmetry Albert Oosterhof 59-91 The Non-Uniformity of Quantificational Variability Effects: A Comparison of Singular Indefinites, Bare Plurals and Plural Definites Cornelia Endriss and Stefan Hinterwimmer 93-120 On the Acquisition of the Indefinite Article: A Cross-linguistic Study of French, Italian, Romanian and Spanish Child Speech Martine Coene 121-143 Part Two - Quantification and Weak-Strong Distinction Proportion Quantifier Interpretations of Indefinites and Endocentric Relevance Relations Arthur Merin 147-186 How Many Are 'Several'? Argumentation, Meaning and Layers Jacques Jayez 187-209 Contextual Restriction and Quantification in Basque Urtzi Etxeberria 211-245 The Acquisition of the Weak-Strong Distinction: The Case of the Dutch Quantifier Allemaal Bart Hollebrandse and Erik-Jan Smits 247-264