Beschreibung
This work presents the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families. Languages covered include American and Russian Sign Languages, and spoken languages: Bamana, Georgian, Hindi, Nen Zi, Turkish, Q'anjob'al, Quichua, Warlpiri. The articles respond to a questionnaire the editors constructed to enable detailed crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features. They offer comparable information on semantic classes of quantifiers (generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, partitive), syntactically complex quantifiers (intensive modification, Boolean compounds, exception phrases, quantified possessors), and several more specific issues such as quantifier scope ambiguities, floating quantifiers, and binary quantifiers. The book is intended for general linguists as articles are largely theory independent, semanticists, and logicians interested in quantification in natural language. The book continues and expands the coverage of the Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language (2012) by the same editors, and extends the earlier work in Matthewson (2008), Gil et al. (2013) and Bach et al (1995).
Autorenporträt
Denis Paperno is a postdoctoral scholar in the Language, Interaction and Computation Laboratory at the University of Trento. He received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2012 for a thesis on The Syntax and the Semantics of Non Standard Coordination. His interests include various areas of linguistics, including field linguistics, formal semantics, and computational linguistics. He has published a descriptive grammar of the Beng language (Mande; Côte d'Ivoire). Edward L. Keenan is Distinguished Professor of linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He received his PhD in Formal Linguistics from The University of Pennsylvania in 1969 for a thesis on A Presupposition Logic for Natural Language. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published in numerous areas of linguistics, including syntactic typology, formal semantics, theoretical syntax, historical syntax, and Austronesian linguistics. He has coauthored two books: Boolean Semantics for Natural Language (1985), with Leonard Faltz, and Bare Grammar: Lectures on Linguistic Invariants, with Edward P. Stabler (2003). In 2015 he was awarded the S.-Y. Kuroda prize Mathematics of Language.
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