Full Description
This volume explores the interface between morphosyntax and semantics-pragmatics in the domain of referential and quantificational nominal expressions. We present case studies from Romance and Germanic languages, dealing with both synchronic and diachronic aspects. Our aim is to empirically test, on the basis of comparative data, the most recent theoretical developments in the analysis of reference and quantification and to identify focal points for future research.
Contents
Preface
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
1 Reference and Quantification in Nominal Phrases: The Current Landscape and the Way Ahead
Chiara Gianollo, Klaus von Heusinger and Maria Napoli
2 Definite Plural Generics in English: Evidence from De-adjectival Nominalization
Artemis Alexiadou
3 Quantification and Classification in Romance Plural Indefinites: From Number to Seinsart?
Mario Squartini
4 Topics and the Interpretation of Referential Null Subjects
Manuel Leonetti
5 Specificity and Questions of Specification
Edgar Onea
6 Being Bare: A Survey of Quantifier Positions
Cecilia Poletto
7 Indefinites as Fossils: The Case of wh-based Free Choice
Maria Aloni
8 The Evaluative Meaning of the Indefinite qualunque in (Old) Italian
Olga Kellert
9 Bare and Indefinite Nominal Predicates in the History of German
Svetlana Petrova
Index of Subjects
