基本説明
This book considers the ways natural languages vary with respect to their realisation of quantificational notions. Drawing on data from English, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Hausa and others, the authors also link the variation in the expression of quantification to the notions of polarity sensitivity, free-choice and indefiniteness.
Full Description
Quantification has been at the heart of research in the syntax and semantics of natural language since Aristotle. The last few decades have seen an explosion of detailed studies of the syntax and semantics of quantification and its relation to the rest of the theory of grammar, resulting in a highly sophisticated understanding of the mechanisms of quantification. This book considers the ways natural languages vary with respect to their realisation of quantificational notions. Drawing on data from English, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Hausa and others, the authors also link the variation in the expression of quantification to the notions of polarity sensitivity, free-choice and indefiniteness.
Contents
1. Introduction ; PART I: CROSSLINGUISTIC STUDIES OF QUANTIFICATION ; 2. Strategie of Quantification in St'at'imcets and the Rest of the World ; 3. Strategies of Quantification in Hausa (Chadic) ; 4. Distributive Quantification by Reduplication in Dravidian ; 5. The Interpretation of Indefinites in the Japanese wh-mo Construction ; 6. At Least, Wenigstens and Company: Negated Universal Quantification and the Typology of Focus Quantifiers ; 7. The Non-uniformity of Wh-indeterminates with Polarity and Free-choice in Chinese ; PART II: QUANTIFICATION, SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE, AND THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE ; 8. Features, Concord, and Quantification: Licensing of conjunctive quantifiers and its implications ; 9. A Cross-linguistic Approach to Mysterious Scope Facts: Structures and interpretation ; 10. Ingredients of Polarity Sensitivity: Bipolar items in Japanese ; 11. All About ALL in (some) Salish Languages ; 12. Binominal Each: A DP that may not be ; References ; Index
