LINGUIST List 31.2219
Wed Jul 08 2020
Books: Something out of Nothing: Cohen
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Date: 02-Jul-2020
From: Clovis Jaillet <Jaillet
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Subject: Something out of Nothing: Cohen
E-mail this message to a friend Title: Something out of Nothing
Subtitle: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Implicit Quantification
Series Title: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface
Published: 2020
Publisher: Brill
http://www.brill.com
Book URL:
https://brill.com/view/title/56264 Author: Ariel Cohen
Electronic: ISBN: 9789004432598 Pages: 173 Price: Europe EURO 110
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004431485 Pages: 173 Price: Europe EURO 110
Abstract:
Some sentences contain no overt quantifier, yet are interpreted quantificationally, e.g., Plumbers are available (entailing that some plumbers are available), or Plumbers are intelligent (whose entailment is less clear, but seems to be saying that a large number of plumbers are intelligent). Where does the quantifier come from? In this book, Ariel Cohen makes the novel proposal that the quantifier is not simply an empty category, but is generated by reinterpretations mechanisms, which are governed by well specified principles. He demonstrates how the puzzling and sometimes mysterious properties of such sentences can be naturally derived from the reinterpretation mechanisms that generate them. The resulting picture has substantial implications that language contains hidden elements, underlying its surface structure.
Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
Philosophy of Language
Pragmatics
Semantics
Written In: English (eng)
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