TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Ariel
TI  - Something Out of Nothing: the Semantics and Pragmatics of Implicit Quantification
T2  - Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface Series
SN  - 9789004432598
AV  - P299.Q3 .C644 2020 
U1  - 401.4301 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general-Quantifiers
KW  - Semantics (Philosophy)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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