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John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia
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...
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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 quantifie
Quantifier Scope in German; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Abbreviations and symbols; Preface; Preliminaries; Relative scope; Absolute scope; Indefinites and quantifiers; Interrogative quantifiers; Alternative scope accounts; Towards a theory of semantic structure; Concluding remarks; References; Index; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today;
