What counts : focus and quantification / Elena Herburger.
2000
P299.F63 H47 2000eb
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Title
What counts : focus and quantification / Elena Herburger.
Author
Herburger, Elena.
ISBN
9780262275293 (electronic bk.)
0262275295 (electronic bk.)
1423737857 (electronic bk.)
9781423737858 (electronic bk.)
026208287X
026258185X (pbk.)
9780262082877
9780262581851 (pbk.)
0262275295 (electronic bk.)
1423737857 (electronic bk.)
9781423737858 (electronic bk.)
026208287X
026258185X (pbk.)
9780262082877
9780262581851 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Copyright
©2000
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 166 pages).
Call Number
P299.F63 H47 2000eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
415
Summary
In What Counts, Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects the pragmatics and truth conditions of a sentence by rearranging its quantificational structure.Adopting a neo-Davidsonian stance, Herburger claims that various pragmatic and truth-conditional effects of focus sustain a uniform explanation if focus is viewed as imposing structure on otherwise unrestricted quantification. Phenomena discussed include "free" focus, the interaction between focus and negation, the quantificational structure of adverbs of quantification, the semantics of only and even, and the differences between weak and strong determiners.One of Herburger's aims is to show that a simple semantics, without reliance on such notions as semantic presupposition, can account for the truth-conditional and pragmatic effects of focus. The book will be of interest to anyone exploring the syntax-semantics interface and current theories of quantification.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 36
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