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Plurals and events / Barry Schein. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schein, Barry.
- Series:
- Current studies in linguistics series ; 23
- Current studies in linguistics series Plurals and events
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Number.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Quantifiers.
- Semantics.
- Language and logic.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 384 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction
- Ch. 2. Plural Reference
- Ch. 3. Polyadicity and Plural Reference
- Ch. 4. Essential Separation
- Ch. 5. Theta-Roles, Events, and Contexts of Events
- Ch. 6. A Semantics for Plurality and Quantification
- Ch. 7. First-Order and Second-Order Quantifiers
- Ch. 8. Semidistributivity
- Ch. 9. Cumulative Quantification
- Ch. 10. Cumulative Quantifiers and Nonmaximal Reference
- Ch. 11. The Cumulative Interpretation of Dependent Quantifiers
- Ch. 12. Cumulative Quantification Is Not n-ary
- Appendix I: Ambiguity in Logical Form
- Appendix II: Notation, Definitions, and Examples.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-262-28307-7
- 0-585-37741-3
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