Quantifier Scope In German (linguistik Aktuell/linguistics Today)
by Dr. Jürgen Pafel /
2006 / English / PDF
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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 quantifiers. Quantifier scope is a challenge to
linguistic theory as it is a phenomenon which is determined by the
interplay of diverse syntactic and semantic factors, which interact
in a weighted and cumulative way. The factors' interplay is part of
the syntax/semantics-interface, i.e., the constraints relating
syntax and semantics, which are considered to be relatively
autonomous, parallel levels connected by an interface of
correspondence constraints.
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 quantifiers. Quantifier scope is a challenge to
linguistic theory as it is a phenomenon which is determined by the
interplay of diverse syntactic and semantic factors, which interact
in a weighted and cumulative way. The factors' interplay is part of
the syntax/semantics-interface, i.e., the constraints relating
syntax and semantics, which are considered to be relatively
autonomous, parallel levels connected by an interface of
correspondence constraints.
