The Semantics of Determiners (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics) - Hardcover

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9780415723787: The Semantics of Determiners (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics)
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Synopsis

This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigation is mostly English, although a few papers deal with French and German, and, to a lesser extent, with Dutch, Polish, Russian and Hebrew. The majority of the contributions focus on the semantics of the definite and indefinite articles, leading into discussions of anaphoricness, specificness, opacity and transparency, referentiality and attributiveness and genericness. The relation of the determiners to other parts of grammar, in particular relativisation and predication, is also investigated. Some attention is also given to quantifiers. In the spirit of pluralism, there is no single paradigm unifying all the papers, rather, the volume reflects elements of the Extended Standard Theory, Generative Semantics, Montague Grammar, (Gricean) Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory.

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Johan Van Der Auwera

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415723787
ISBN 13 
9780415723787
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
310
Editor
Van Der Auwera Johan

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