Indefinites and the Type of Sets explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects.
* Provides an introduction to aspects of the semantics of noun phrases, as well as comparing alternate theories.
* Explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects.
* Written accessibly by one of the world's most prominent formal semanticists.
* Useful for students and scholars in formal semantics as well as the neighboring fields of syntax, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language.
Autorentext
Fred Landman is Professor of Semantics at Tel Aviv University. His publications include Events and Plurality (2000), Structures for Semantics (1991), Towards a Theory of Information (1986), and Varieties of Formal Semantics (edited with Frank Veltman, 1984).
Zusammenfassung
Indefinites and the Type of Sets explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects.
- Provides an introduction to aspects of the semantics of noun phrases, as well as comparing alternate theories.
- Explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects.
- Written accessibly by one of the world's most prominent formal semanticists.
- Useful for students and scholars in formal semantics as well as the neighboring fields of syntax, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language.
Inhalt
Acknowledgements.
Reading this book at different levels.
Introduction.
1. Numerical Adjectives and the Type of Sets.
2. The Adjectival Theory of Indefinite Predicates and
Arguments.
3. The Variable Constraint on Predicates and
There-Insertion Subjects.
4. Problems for Weak-Strong Analyses of There-Insertion
Subjects.
5. There-Insertion Subjects as Subjects Adjoined to Verb
Phrases.
6. There-Insertion Subjects Adjoined to Saturated
Predicates.
7. Some Questions about There-Insertion in Dutch.
8. The Problem of Negative Noun Phrases.
9. Relational Indefinites and Semantic Incorporation.
10. Definite Time-Adverbials and Event Measures.
11. Indefinite Time-Adverbials and the Counting-Grid.
References.
Index.