By Cornelia Ebert
ISBN-10: 904812302X
ISBN-13: 9789048123025
ISBN-10: 9048184886
ISBN-13: 9789048184880
Addressing a subject matter that has questioned the linguistics neighborhood for a few years, this booklet bargains a unique method of the outstanding vast scope behaviour of indefinites. it's the first e-book explicitly devoted to unparalleled extensive scope phenomena. Its special approach bargains a proof for the truth that it is just a formal subset of the indefinites that indicates this unparalleled vast scope behaviour.
The writer attracts a cautious contrast among actual and obvious scope readings, a contrast that's frequently now not treated and has therefore resulted in convinced confusions. particularly, it really is argued that sensible readings need to be stored strictly except non-functional ones and that each one proposals that use useful mechanisms to provide an explanation for the phenomena handy face critical problems.
The latest physique of literature at the major problems with the publication is punctiliously reviewed. This makes the booklet compatible as heritage literature for graduate seminars on these topics.
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Quantificational Topics: A Scopal Treatment of Exceptional Wide Scope Phenomena: 86 (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy) by Cornelia Ebert
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