A study of the relationship between the Case of a noun phrase (NP) and its quantificational character. Develops a hypothesis about strong and weak readings of NPs, and on type of Case assignment, using examples from Finnish, Turkish, Inuit, English, and Dutch. Contains chapters on the semantics of
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The present chapter focuses on the semantic status of Noun Phrases (NPs). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
standard subject position, gisteren opgepakt heeft, partitive reading, telic activity verbs, enkele taalkundigen, contrastive predicate, possible strong readings, veel taalkundigen, individual level predicates, kilometers yesterday, linguists yesterday, symmetric reading, twee van, definiteness restriction, nuclear scope, enkele van, adverb quantifies, stage level predicates, presuppositional reading, object scrambling, weak determiners, existential reading, cannot scramble, existential sentences, generic reading Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Noun Phrase Interpretation, Van Hout, Den Besten, Pieter Moatje, Scottish Gaelic, Discourse Representation Theory, Jan Koster, Pie Hypothesis, Barbara Partee, New Zealand New!
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The present chapter focuses on the semantic status of Noun Phrases (NPs). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
standard subject position, gisteren opgepakt heeft, partitive reading, telic activity verbs, enkele taalkundigen, contrastive predicate, possible strong readings, veel taalkundigen, individual level predicates, kilometers yesterday, linguists yesterday, symmetric reading, twee van, definiteness restriction, nuclear scope, enkele van, adverb quantifies, stage level predicates, presuppositional reading, object scrambling, weak determiners, existential reading, cannot scramble, existential sentences, generic reading Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Noun Phrase Interpretation, Van Hout, Den Besten, Pieter Moatje, Scottish Gaelic, Discourse Representation Theory, Jan Koster, Pie Hypothesis, Barbara Partee, New Zealand New!
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- The Representation of (In)definiteness (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Eric J. Reuland on 4 pages
- Studies in Modeltheoretic Semantics (Groningen-Amsterdam Studies in Semantics) by Alice G.B.Ter Meulen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Quantification in Natural Languages (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy) by Elke Bach in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Mental Representation of Grammatical Relations (Cognitive Theory and Mental Representation) by Joan Bresnan in Back Matter
- Syntactic Chains (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by Kenneth J. Safir in Back Matter
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- Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Peter Svenonius on page 24, page 68, and page 240
- Handbook of Pragmatics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) by Laurence Horn in Back Matter
- Focus: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives (Studies in Natural Language Processing) by Peter Bosch on page 165
- Events as Grammatical Objects: The Converging Perspectives of Lexical Semantics and Syntax (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes) by Carol L. Tenny on page 236
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