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What counts :

0262275295

1423737857

9780262275293

9781423737858

026208287X

026258185X

9780262082877

9780262581851

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What counts :

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focus and quantification /

Elena Herburger.

Cambridge, Mass. :

MIT Press,

©2000.

©2000

1 online resource (x, 166 pages).

Linguistic inquiry monographs ;

36

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-160) and index.

In What Counts, Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects the pragmatics and truth conditions of a sentence by rearranging its quantificational structure.Adopting a neo-Davidsonian stance, Herburger claims that various pragmatic and truth-conditional effects of focus sustain a uniform explanation if focus is viewed as imposing structure on otherwise unrestricted quantification. Phenomena discussed include "free" focus, the interaction between focus and negation, the quantificational structure of adverbs of quantification, the semantics of only and even, and the differences between weak and strong determiners.One of Herburger's aims is to show that a simple semantics, without reliance on such notions as semantic presupposition, can account for the truth-conditional and pragmatic effects of focus. The book will be of interest to anyone exploring the syntax-semantics interface and current theories of quantification.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 36

00015994

MIT Press

MIT Press

7201

9780262275293

What counts.

026258185X

Focus (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general-- Determiners.

Grammar, Comparative and general-- Quantifiers.

Pragmatics.

Semantics.

Focus (Linguistics)

Focus (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general-- Determiners.

Grammar, Comparative and general-- Determiners.

Grammar, Comparative and general-- Quantifiers.

Grammar, Comparative and general-- Quantifiers.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Grammar & Punctuation.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.

Languages & Literatures.

Philology & Linguistics.

Pragmatics.

Pragmatics.

Semantics.

Semantics.

LAN-- 006000

LAN-- 009060

Herburger, Elena.

20201207221120.0

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