Something Out of Nothing : the Semantics and Pragmatics of Implicit Quantification.
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TextSeries: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (183 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9789004432598
- 401.4301
- P299.Q3 .C644 2020
Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1. What You See Is Not Always What You Get -- Chapter 2. Reinterpretation Mechanisms -- 1. Reinterpretation -- 2. Type-Shifting -- 2.1. The Nature of Type-Shifting -- 2.2. Type-Shifting and Scope -- 2.3. Type-Shifting and Gradable Adjectives -- 2.4. Type-Shifting and Discourse Referents -- 2.5. Blocking -- 2.6. Type-Shifting or Sort-Shifting? -- 2.7. Summary -- 3. Predicate Transfer -- 3.1. The Nature of Predicate Transfer -- 3.2. "Noteworthy" Properties -- 3.3. The Transfer Function -- 3.4. Intensional Properties -- 3.5. When Does Predicate Transfer Apply? -- 3.6. Scope -- 3.7. Summary -- Chapter 3. Bare Plurals -- 1. The Ambiguity of Bare Plurals -- 2. A Non-quantificational Theory? -- 2.1. Carlson (1977) -- 2.2. The Existential Reading -- 2.3. The Characterizing Generic Reading -- 3. Quantificational Accounts of English Bare Plurals -- 3.1. Points of Agreement -- 3.2. Characterizing Readings -- 3.3. Existential Readings and Blocking -- 4. Kinds or Properties? -- 4.1. An Argument for Properties-Unmotivated Type-Shifting -- 4.2. An Argument for Kinds-Bare Singulars -- 4.3. English Indefinite Singulars -- 4.4. An Argument for Kinds-Scopally Ambiguous Bare Plurals -- 5. A Synthesis -- 6. Deciding between the Theories -- Chapter 4. Beyond English Bare Plurals -- 1. Italian Bare Plurals: Direct Kind Predication -- 1.1. The Data -- 1.2. The Theory -- 2. Definites and Type-Shifting -- 2.1. The Interpretation of Definiteness -- 2.2. Definites as Kind-Referring -- 2.3. Definite Plurals -- 2.4. Definites in Italian -- 3. Italian BPs: Existential Readings -- 4. Italian BPs: Characterizing Generics -- 4.1. Are Characterizing Generics Possible? -- 4.2. The Heaviness Requirement -- 4.3. A Comparison with English Indefinite Singulars -- 4.4. Generic Italian BPs Are Normative.
4.5. Normative English BPs -- 5. An Account of Italian BPs -- 6. Hungarian Bare Plurals -- 7. Bare Singulars -- 7.1. Bare Singulars and Type-Shifting -- 7.2. Existential Readings -- 7.3. Reference to Kinds -- 7.4. Characterizing Readings -- 8. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Generics and Habituals -- 1. Generics and Scope -- 1.1. Negation -- 1.2. Opaque Contexts -- 1.3. Transparent Contexts -- 2. Habituals and Scope -- 3. Types of Explanation -- 3.1. The Facts so far -- 3.2. Number -- 3.3. A Verb-Level Null Operator -- 3.4. A Syntactic Account? -- 4. Reinterpretation Mechanisms Revisited -- 4.1. The Introduction of Implicit Quantifiers -- 4.2. Null Categories in Syntax -- 4.3. Null Categories in Semantics -- 5. The Generic Quantifier -- 6. Generics -- 6.1. Analysis -- 6.2. Formalization -- 7. Habituals -- 7.1. Analysis -- 7.2. The Imperfective -- 7.3. Formalization -- 7.4. Habituals and Bare Plurals -- 7.5. The Progressive -- Chapter 6. Iterativity -- 1. Durative Adverbials -- 2. The Origins of Iterativity -- 3. Iterativity and Scope -- 4. Alternative Explanations -- 4.1. Iterativity as an Inherently Narrow Scope Operator? -- 4.2. Iterativity as a Verb-Level Operator? -- 5. Iterativity as a Quantifier -- Chapter 7. The Nature of Implicit Quantification -- 1. Two Implicit Quantifiers -- 1.1. The Existential and the Generic Quantifiers -- 1.2. Are Generics Modal Universals? -- 2. A Preference for Inference -- 2.1. Unmarked Forms and Unmarked Interpretations -- 2.2. Bare Forms and Stereotypicality -- 2.3. Bare Forms and Non-stereotypicality -- 2.4. Inference and Preference -- References -- Name index -- Subject Index.
In this book, Ariel Cohen makes the novel proposal that an implicit quantifier isn't simply an empty category, but is generated by well-defined reinterpretation mechanisms. He demonstrates how this theory naturally accounts for puzzling properties of implicit quantification.
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