Something Out of Nothing: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Implicit Quantification

by Ariel Cohen

Some sentences contain no overt quantifier, yet are interpreted quantificationally, e.g., Plumbers are available (entailing that some plumbers are available), or Plumbers are intelligent (whose entailment is less clear, but seems to be saying that a large number of plumbers are intelligent). Where does the quantifier come from? In this book, Ariel Cohen makes the novel proposal that the quantifier is not simply an empty category, but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004431489
• ISBN13: 9789004431485
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"