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(Tel Aviv University)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 239x165x25 mm, kaal: 544 g
  • Sari: Explorations in Semantics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Nov-2003
  • Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN-10: 1405116315
  • ISBN-13: 9781405116312
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 239x165x25 mm, kaal: 544 g
  • Sari: Explorations in Semantics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Nov-2003
  • Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN-10: 1405116315
  • ISBN-13: 9781405116312
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Indefinites and the Type of Sets explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects.

  • Provides an introduction to aspects of the semantics of noun phrases, as well as comparing alternate theories.
  • Explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects.
  • Written accessibly by one of the world’s most prominent formal semanticists.
  • Useful for students and scholars in formal semantics as well as the neighboring fields of syntax, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language.

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"An impressive contribution to the study of definiteness effects in natural language, empirically rich and theoretically stimulating. Fred Landmans style is uniquely engaging he makes hardcore linguistics fun to read!" Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers University





"Some people might think that everything has been said about the semantics of indefinites. Landman's book proves the opposite. It contains a wealth of new ideas and insights about this never-aging topic." Gerhard Jäger, University of Potsdam

Acknowledgments viii
Reading This Book at Different Levels xiii
Introduction xvii
1 Numerical Adjectives and the Type of Sets
1(18)
2 The Adjectival Theory of Indefinite Predicates and Arguments
19(29)
2.1 Two Theories of Arguments and Predicates
19(3)
2.2 The First Match
22(2)
2.3 Whither the Adjectival Theory
24(3)
2.4 The Second Match: Predicate-Argument Mismatches
27(5)
2.5 Argument Formation
32(6)
2.6 Slugging It Out: Conjunctive Predicates
38(3)
2.7 Who's the Winner?
41(1)
2.8 Syntax-Semantics Mismatches
42(2)
2.9 Sentence Adverbials inside Noun Phrase Conjunctions
44(4)
3 The Variable Constraint on Predicates and There-Insertion Subjects
48(25)
3.1 Predicates
48(6)
3.2 There-Insertion
54(5)
3.3 There-Insertion Contexts and Predication Contexts
59(1)
3.4 Role-value Predicates
60(7)
3.5 Wh-questions and Individual Variables
67(6)
4 Problems for Weak-Strong Analyses of There-Insertion Subjects
73(26)
4.1 The Proposal in a Nutshell
73(3)
4.2 Types versus Semantic Properties
76(2)
4.3 Worry One: The Quantificational Class is Small and Heterogeneous
78(2)
4.4 Worry Two: Quantificational Noun Phrases and Definites that are not Presuppositional
80(5)
4.5 Worry Three: The Infelicity of Partitives
85(1)
4.6 Worry Four: een mop van some en most (a joke about some and most)
86(8)
4.7 Worry Five: The Semantic Property of There-Insertion Contexts that Strong Noun Phrases are Supposed to be Incompatible with
94(1)
4.8 A Note on Collective Interpretations
95(4)
5 There-Insertion Subjects as Subjects Adjoined to Verb Phrases
99(25)
5.1 Thematic Constraints
99(6)
5.2 Flip-flop
105(6)
5.3 The Semantics from the Adjoined Indefinite Upwards
111(6)
5.4 Non-thematic Subjects
117(7)
6 There-Insertion Subjects Adjoined to Saturated Predicates
124(28)
6.1 Saturated and Unsaturated One-Place Predicates
124(4)
6.2 Predicate Formation
128(5)
6.3 Episodic Predicates, Passive Verbs, and Unaccusative Verbs
133(5)
6.4 Saturated One-Place Predicates
138(3)
6.5 Adjunction to Saturated One-Place Predicates
141(4)
6.6 The Predication Head
145(3)
6.7 Subject-Verb Agreement and Theology
148(4)
7 Some Questions about There-Insertion in Dutch
152(19)
8 The Problem of Negative Noun Phrases
171(26)
8.1 Negative Noun Phrases in Argument Position
171(2)
8.2 Negative Noun Phrases in Predicate and Adjunct Position
173(1)
8.3 Semantic Break-up
174(4)
8.4 The Evidence for Semantic Break-up
178(8)
8.5 The Problem of Negative Noun Phrases inside Conjunctions
186(5)
8.6 The Problem of Exception Phrases Modifying Nominal Negation
191(6)
9 Relational Indefinites and Semantic Incorporation
197(24)
9.1 The Data
197(6)
9.2 Dethematicization and Rethematicization through Semantic Incorporation
203(3)
9.3 Incorporation in Verbs of Change of Possession
206(15)
10 Definite Time-Adverbials and Event Measures 221(13)
10.1 Rothstein's Analysis of Bare Noun Phrase Adverbials
221(4)
10.2 Degree Relatives: Grosu and Landman's Analysis
225(4)
10.3 Solving the Puzzle for Rothstein's Analysis
229(5)
11 Indefinite Time-Adverbials and the Counting-Grid 234(26)
11.1 Indefinite Counting Adverbials
234(3)
11.2 Time as a Classifier
237(7)
11.3 Slashed Modifier Categories
244(4)
11.4 Counting Modifiers
248(4)
11.5 Direct Counting and Scope
252(3)
11.6 The Scope of Counting Modifiers
255(5)
References 260(5)
Index 265
Fred Landman is Professor of Semantics at Tel Aviv University. His publications include Events and Plurality (2000), Structures for Semantics (1991), Towards a Theory of Information (1986), and Varieties of Formal Semantics (edited with Frank Veltman, 1984).