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Indefinites and the type of sets

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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  Read more...

Abstract: 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

Author(s): Landman, Fred
Series: Explorations in semantics
Publisher: Blackwell,John Wiley & Sons
Year: 2004

Language: English
Pages: 300
City: Chichester
Tags: Definiteness (Linguistics)

Content: Indefinites and the Type of Sets
Contents
Acknowledgments
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 Incorporation10 Definite Time-Adverbials and Event Measures
11 Indefinite Time-Adverbials and the Counting-Grid
References
Index.