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Author Diesing, Molly

Title Indefinites / Molly Diesing
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 175 pages) : illustrations
Series Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 20
Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 20.
Contents Deriving Logical Representations : A Proposal -- Initial Evidence in Favor of the Mapping Hypothesis -- Tree Splitting and the Interpretation of Indefinites -- Presupposition, Extraction, and Logical Form
Summary Indefinites investigates the relationship between the syntactic and semantic representations of sentences within the framework of generative grammar. It proposes a means of relating government-binding theory, which is primarily syntactic, to the semantic theory of noun phrase interpretation developed by Kamp and Heim, and introduces a novel mapping algorithm that describes the relation between syntactic configurations and logical representations. Diesing focuses on the problem of deriving logical representations from syntactic representations of sentences, with an emphasis on issues of quantification and the interpretation of indefinites. The two central questions addressed are the possible semantic interpretations of indefinites and quantificational noun phrases, and the role played by syntactic representation in deriving the semantic representation of noun phrases. The mapping algorithm used is applied to derive the logical representations of indefinites to a wide range of syntactic and semantic phenomena in German including scrambling, VP-deletion, and extraction from NP
Notes Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1990
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-169) and index
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Definiteness (Linguistics)
Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers.
Government-binding theory (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun phrase.
Semantics
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Definiteness (Linguistics)
Government-binding theory (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Noun phrase
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Quantifiers
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
Semantics
Form Electronic book
LC no. 91045987
ISBN 0585344264
9780585344263
0262271729
9780262271721
9780262041317
0262041316