The Semantics of Determiners (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) Contributor(s): Van Der Auwera, Johan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415723787 ISBN-13: 9780415723787 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
Dewey: 415 |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.35 lbs) 310 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |