[图书][B] Quantification

A Szabolcsi - 2010 - books.google.com
Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence
structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the …

What do quantifier particles do?

A Szabolcsi - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2015 - Springer
In many languages, the same particles that form quantifier words also serve as connectives,
additive and scalar particles, question markers, roots of existential verbs, and so on. Do …

The scope of alternatives: Indefiniteness and islands

S Charlow - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2020 - Springer
I argue that alternative-denoting expressions interact with their semantic context by taking
scope. With an empirical focus on indefinites in English, I show how this approach improves …

[PDF][PDF] On the semantics of exceptional scope

S Charlow - 2014 - semanticsarchive.net
I motivate a new theory of exceptional scope phenomena in natural language—that is, the
ability of some expressions to affect the interpretation of others from inside scope islands. I …

Composing alternatives

I Ciardelli, F Roelofsen, N Theiler - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2017 - Springer
There is a prominent line of work in natural language semantics, rooted in the work of
Hamblin, in which the meaning of a sentence is not taken to be a single proposition, but …

Metalinguistic comparison in an alternative semantics for imprecision

M Morzycki - Natural Language Semantics, 2011 - Springer
This paper offers an analysis of metalinguistic comparatives such as more dumb than crazy
in which they differ from ordinary comparatives in the scale on which they compare: ordinary …

[PDF][PDF] The indefiniteness and focusing of question words

A Haida - Semantics and linguistic theory, 2008 - journals.linguisticsociety.org
Question words show striking similarities among the languages of the world: They are
typically morphologically related to indefinites and they are typically, if not universally …

[图书][B] Formal and philological inquiries into the nature of interrogatives, indefinites, disjunction, and focus in Sinhala and other languages

BM Slade - 2011 - search.proquest.com
In this thesis I examine a variety of linguistic elements which involve “alternative” semantic
values—a class arguably including focus, interrogatives, indefinites, and disjunctions—and …

Toward a typology for additive markers

D Forker - Lingua, 2016 - Elsevier
This study represents a typological investigation of additive markers that correspond to
English too, also, and as well. It is cross-linguistically common for additives to fulfill a wide …

[引用][C] Logic in grammar: Polarity, free choice, and intervention

G Chierchia - 2013 - OUP Oxford