Overview
- Offers an important expansion to the Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language by the same editors
- Comparable information on semantic classes of quantifiers in diverse languages including American and Russian Sign Language
- Presented in an accessible, theory independent format that allows for crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features
Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 97)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
Keywords
- Binary quantifiers
- Boolean compounds
- Cross-linguistic comparison of quantifiers
- Exception phrases
- Existential/universal/proportional quantifiers
- Floating quantifiers
- Quantification in natural languages
- Quantificational expressions in languages
- Quantified possessors
- Quantifiers in American sign language
- Quantifiers in Bamana
- Quantifiers in Georgian
- Quantifiers in Russian sign language
- Semantic analysis of quantifiers
- Syntactically complex quantifiers
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Edward L. Keenan is Distinguished Professor of linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He received his PhD in Formal Linguistics from The University of Pennsylvania in 1969 for a thesis on A Presupposition Logic for Natural Language. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published in numerous areas oflinguistics, including syntactic typology, formal semantics, theoretical syntax, historical syntax, and Austronesian linguistics. He has coauthored two books: Boolean Semantics for Natural Language (1985), with Leonard Faltz, and Bare Grammar: Lectures on Linguistic Invariants, with Edward P. Stabler (2003). In 2015 he was awarded the S.-Y. Kuroda prize Mathematics of Language.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume II
Editors: Denis Paperno, Edward L. Keenan
Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44330-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44328-7Published: 11 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83041-4Published: 28 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44330-0Published: 30 June 2017
Series ISSN: 0924-4662
Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 1010
Topics: Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Syntax