Quantification

by Anna Szabolcsi

Book Overview

Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the foundational work in the 1970s. It paints a vivid picture of generalized quantifiers and Boolean semantics. It explains how the discovery of diverse scope behaviour in the 1990s transformed the view of quantification, and how the study of the internal composition of quantifiers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521715938
• ISBN13: 9780521715935
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"