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Plurality and Quantification

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Fritz Hamm

    1. University of Tübingen, Germany

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  2. Erhard Hinrichs

    1. University of Tübingen, Germany

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 69)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    • Fritz Hamm, Erhard Hinrichs
    Pages 1-18

  3. Ten Years of Research on Plurals — Where Do We Stand?

    • Godehard Link
    Pages 19-54

  4. The Influence of Plural NPs on Aktionsart in DRT

    • Kurt Eberle
    Pages 55-111

  5. Mass Terms and Plurals in Property Theory

    • Chris Fox
    Pages 113-175

  6. Three Types of Polarity

    • Frans Zwarts
    Pages 177-238

  7. Sums and Quantifiers

    • Jaap Van Der Does
    Pages 239-282

  8. Some Issues in the Analysis of Multiple Quantification with Plural NPs

    • Henk J. Verkuyl
    Pages 283-319

  9. Reducing the Coordination of Determiners: Some Principles

    • Christine Michaux
    Pages 321-337

  10. Issues on Distributive and Collective Readings

    • Joao Andrade Peres
    Pages 339-365

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 367-386
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The papers in this volume address central issues in the study of Plurality and Quantification from three different perspectives: • Algebraic approaches to Plurals and Quantification • Distributivity and Collectivity: Theoretical Foundations • Distributivity and Collectivity: Empirical Investigations Algebraic approaches to the semantics of natural languages were in­ dependently introduced for the study of generalized quantification, pred­ ication, intensionality, mass terms and plurality. The most prominent modern advocate for an algebraic theory of plurality (and mass terms) is certainly Godehard Link. It is indicative of the Wirkungsgeschichte of Link's work that most of the contributions in this volume take the logic of plurals proposed by Godehard Link (Link 1983, 1987) as their foundation or, at the very least, as their point of reference. Link's own paper in this volume provides a concise summary of many of the central research issues that have engaged semanticists during the last decade. Link's paper also contains an extensive bibliography that provides an excellent resource for scholars interested in the semantics of plurals. Since we can refer readers to Link's paper for an excellent survey of the subject matter of this book, we will limit our attention in this in­ troduction to summarizing the individual contributions in this volume. The book is organized into three main sections; within each section the papers are ordered alphabetically. However, as in much of linguistic the­ orizing, there is an exception: for reasons pointed out above, Godehard Link's article appears as Chapter 1.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Tübingen, Germany

    Fritz Hamm, Erhard Hinrichs

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Plurality and Quantification

  • Editors: Fritz Hamm, Erhard Hinrichs

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2706-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4841-2Published: 30 November 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4943-8Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2706-8Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 386

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Semantics, Syntax, Philosophy of Language, Logic

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