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LINGUIST List 17.357

Thu Feb 02 2006

Books: Ling Theories/Semantics/Syntax, German: Pafel

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        1.    Paul Peranteau, Quantifier Scope in German: Pafel
Message 1: Quantifier Scope in German: Pafel
Date: 30-Jan-2006
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Quantifier Scope in German: Pafel


Title: Quantifier Scope in German
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 84
Published: 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%2084

Author: Jürgen Pafel, University of Stuttgart
Hardback: ISBN: 9027228086 Pages: xvi,312 Price: U.S. $ 156.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027228086 Pages: xvi,312 Price: Europe EURO 130.00
Abstract:

This book presents a comprehensive account of quantifier scope in German.
The author investigates scope behavior of ordinary quantifiers and
negative, adverbial, interrogative, relative and particle quantifiers. The
areas which are dealt with include: relative scope in simple sentences,
absolute and relative scope in complex sentences, noun-phrase internal
scope, and scope behavior of indefinite noun phrases. A theory of explicit
and implicit quantification is proposed and a uniform process of scope
determination is sketched which encompasses the scope of explicit as well
as implicit quantifiers. Quantifier scope is a challenge to linguistic
theory as it is a phenomenon which is determined by the interplay of
diverse syntactic and semantic factors, which interact in a weighted and
cumulative way. The factors' interplay is part of the
syntax/semantics-interface, i.e., the constraints relating syntax and
semantics, which are considered to be relatively autonomous, parallel
levels connected by an interface of correspondence constraints.



Table of contents

Abbreviations and symbols ix-xi
Preface xiii-xvi
Preliminaries 1-49
Relative scope 51-136
Absolute scope 137-178
Indefinites and quantifiers 179-213
Interrogative quantifiers 215-235
Alternative scope accounts 237-260
Towards a theory of semantic structure 261-289
Concluding remarks 291-292
References 293-309
Index 311-312

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                            Semantics
                            Syntax

Subject Language(s): German, Standard (deu)

Written In: English (eng )

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