Quantifier scope in German / Jurgen Pafel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pafel, Jürgen, 1957-

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 84.

Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 84

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German language--Quantifiers.

German language.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Quantifiers.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

German language--Syntax.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents a comprehensive account of quantifier scope in German. The author investigates scope behavior of ordinary quantifiers and negative, adverbial, interrogative, relative and particle quantifiers. The areas which are dealt with include: relative scope in simple sentences, absolute and relative scope in complex sentences, noun-phrase internal scope, and scope behavior of indefinite noun phrases. A theory of explicit and implicit quantification is proposed and a uniform process of scope determination is sketched which encompasses the scope of explicit as well as implicit quantifiers. Quantifier scope is a challenge to linguistic theory as it is a phenomenon which is determined by the interplay of diverse syntactic and semantic factors, which interact in a weighted and cumulative way. The factors' interplay is part of the syntax/semantics-interface, i.e., the constraints relating syntax and semantics, which are considered to be relatively autonomous, parallel levels connected by an interface of correspondence constraints.

Contents:

Quantifier Scope in German

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Abbreviations and symbols

Preface

Preliminaries

1.1. Introduction

1.1.1. The empirical issues

1.1.2. The theoretical issues

1.2. German quantifiers

1.2.1. Criteria of identification

1.2.2. The classes of quantifiers investigated

1.3. Syntactic assumptions

1.3.1. Noun phrases

1.3.2. Verb phrases and sentences

1.4. Semantic assumptions

1.4.1. Names

1.4.2. Quantifiers

Notes

Relative scope

2.1. Some basic patterns of Q/Q-interaction

2.2. The properties determining relative scope

2.2.1. Syntactic constellation

2.2.2. Grammatical function

2.2.3. Thematic property

2.2.4. Distributivity

2.2.5. Discourse-binding

2.2.6. Definiteness

2.2.7. Focus

2.2.8. Negation attraction

2.3. A linear model of relative scope determination

2.3.1. Cumulativity, weights and linear equations

2.3.2. The model's predictions

2.4. Relative scope and the relation between syntactic and semantic structure

2.4.1. A comparison between relative scope and word order determination

2.4.2. The correspondence constraints concerning relative scope

2.5. The status of linear models

2.5.1. Can linear models be explanatorily adequate?

2.5.2. Linear models, optimality and smart heuristics

2.6. The scope behavior of further types of quantifiers

2.6.1. Coordinative quantifiers

2.6.2. Quantifiers with focus particles

2.6.3. Relative phrases

Absolute scope

3.1. The puzzle of clause-boundedness

3.1.1. Absolute scope and (in)coherent infinitival constructions

3.1.2. Absolute scope and subordinate finite clauses

3.2. A model of absolute and relative scope determination

3.3. Scope (and syntax) of wh-phrases in situ.

3.4. Absolute scope and the relation between syntactic and semantic structure

3.4.1. From clause-boundedness to phrase-boundedness

3.4.2. Absolute scope and quantifier raising

3.4.3. Correspondence constraints concerning absolute scope

3.4.4. Scope and quantifier storage

3.5. Inverse linking

Indefinites and quantifiers

4.1. Indefinite quantifiers

4.2. Types of indefinites

4.2.1. Non-specific indefinites

4.2.2. Specific indefinites

4.2.3. Some consequences concerning (non-)specific indefinites

4.2.4. Generic indefinites

4.3. The scope of implicit quantifiers triggered by (in)definites

4.4. Indefinites in donkey sentences

Interrogative quantifiers

5.1. The pair-list reading as a scope reading

5.2. Wh/Q-interaction in German, English and Polish

5.3. The semantics of the pair-list reading

5.4. Scope and semantics of how many phrases

Alternative scope accounts

6.1. Configurational theories

6.2. Semantically and pragmatically based theories

6.3. Multi-factor theories

Towards a theory of semantic structure

7.1. The form of semantic structure

7.1.1. Semantic features and semantic structures

7.1.2. The semantic characterization of lexical items and syntactic phrases

7.2. The interpretation of semantic structure

7.3. The construction of semantic structures from syntactic structures

7.3.1. Semantic specifications and quantifier stores

7.3.2. Implicit quantifiers in semantic structure

Concluding remarks

References

Index

The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Notes:

Revised version of the author's Habilitationsschrift--Universitat Tubingen, 1997.

ISBN:

9786612156045

9781282156043

1282156047

9789027293749

9027293740

OCLC:

191934804