Generalized Quantifiers: Linguistic and Logical Approaches [1 ed.] 1-55608-017-4

Some fifteen years ago, research on generalized quantifiers was con sidered to be a branch of mathematical logic, mainl

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English Pages 309 [318] Year 1987

Table of contents :
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Noun Phrases, Generalized Quantifiers and Anaphora....Pages 1-29
Towards a Computational Semantics....Pages 31-71
Preliminaries to the Treatment of Generalized Quantifiers in Situation Semantics....Pages 73-91
There-Sentences and Generalized Quantifiers....Pages 93-107
Unreducible N-Ary Quantifiers in Natural Language....Pages 109-150
Generalized Quantifiers and Plurals....Pages 151-180
Natural Language and Generalized Quantifier Theory....Pages 181-201
Collective Readings of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases....Pages 203-235
Noun Phrase Interpretation in Montague Grammar, File Change Semantics, and Situation Semantics....Pages 237-268
Branching Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language....Pages 269-298
Back Matter....Pages 299-309

Generalized Quantifiers: Linguistic and Logical Approaches [1 ed.]
1-55608-017-4

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