Non-definiteness and plurality
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Amsterdam
J. Benjamins
2006
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| Schriftenreihe: | Linguistik aktuell
Bd. 95 |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 Volltext |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Non-definiteness and Plurality; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; I. Non-definiteness, Plurality, and Incorporation; The meaningful bounds of incorporation; Bare nouns, number and types of incorporation; The unmarked determiner; Bare objects in Korean; Bare plurals in object position; II. Alternatives to the Incorporation Approach; Aspectual implications of the semantics of plural indefinites; Indefinites, quantifiers and pluractionals; Generic sentences and bare plurals; III. Numerical Non-definites This collection of studies by leading scholars in the field focuses on the semantics of non-definite (bare and indefinite) plural NPs. The contributions in the first part concentrate on bare plurals and their cross-linguistic counterparts. They discuss applicability of the notion of 'semantic incorporation' to bare plurals by contrasting them to bare singulars, with the aim of accounting for the interaction between the semantics of number and the degree of (in)dependency of the NP with respect to the verb. The articles in the second part examine the relationship between the semantics of number |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 358 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9027233594 9027293171 9789027233592 9789027293176 |