Something out of Nothing: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Implicit Quantification
- ISBN-10
- 9004432590
- ISBN-13
- 9789004432598
- Series
- Something Out of Nothing
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 183
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-06-29
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Author
- Ariel Cohen
Description
In this book, Ariel Cohen makes the novel proposal that an implicit quantifier isn’t simply an empty category, but is generated by well-defined reinterpretation mechanisms. He demonstrates how this theory naturally accounts for puzzling properties of implicit quantification.
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- 2006-03-21
- 134 pages
- Paperback
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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