Quantificational Topics: A Scopal Treatment of Exceptional Wide Scope Phenomena

By Cornelia Endriss and Cornelia Ebert

Book Overview

Introduction.- Information Structure.-Truth-Conditional Effects of Information Structure.-Topical Quantifiers.- Topicality and Exceptional Wide Scope.- An Outline of the Proposal.- The Structure of This Book.- Topicality.- Defining Topicality.- Aboutness.- Familiarity.- Topics as Entities.- Indefinite Topics.- Reinhart (1981).- Topic Tests and Topical Quantifiers.- Simple Tests.- Syntactic Marking.- Intonational Marking.- Morphological Marking.- A Discourse Configurational Language: Hungarian.- Alleged Topic Tests.- Conclusion.- Genuine and Apparent Scope Readings.- Specificity.- Ioup (1977).- Hintikka (1986).- Enc, (1991).- Consequences.- Wide Scope.- Apparent Wide Scope .- Apparent vs. Genuine Wide Scope.- Functional readings.- Data.- Natural Functions.- Properties of Natural Functions.- Apparent vs. Genuine Narrow Scope.- Conclusion.- ExceptionalWide Scope.- Scope Islands.- The Class of Wide Scope Quantifiers.- Genuine vs. Apparent Exceptional Wide Scope.- Approaches Relying on Speaker's Reference.- Fodor and Sag (1982).- Other Approaches.- Problems.- Approaches Relying on Domain Restriction.- Schwarzschild (2002).- Other Approaches.- Problems.- Presuppositional Approaches.- Yeom (1998).- Cresti (1995).- Other Approaches.- Problems.- Choice Function Approaches.- Reinhart (1997); Winter (1997).- Kratzer (1998).- Problems.- Consequences.- Approaches Relying on Wide Extraction.- Discussion.- Conclusion.- Semantic Effects of Topicality.- Types of Aboutness Topics.- Intonation.- 5.3 Topicality Induces Wide.- Genuine Wide Scope vs. Apparent Wide Scope.- Apparent Non-Wide Scope Interpretations of Direct Aboutness Topics.- Does a Strong Interpretation Imply Topicality?.- Approaches Relating Exceptional Wide Scope to Topicality.- Conclusion.- Exceptional Wide Scope as a Topic Phenomenon.- Deriving the Classification.- Technical Preliminaries.- Quantifier Semantics.- Structured Meanings.- Components of the Theory.- Creating a Topic Discourse Referent.- The TopicCondition.- Quantifier Classification.- Topic Assert.- Deriving Wide Scope via Topicality.- Intermediate Scope Readings.- Data.- Analysis.- Problems.- Functional Topics.- The Interpretation of Functional DPs.- Topic Interpretation and the Topic Condition with Functional DPs.- Conclusion.- Conclusion.- A Technicalities and Experiments.- Generalized Quantifiers.- Monotonicity.- Witness Sets.- Lexical Quantifier Semantics.- Pilot Studies.- The Accent Pattern of Wide Scope Indefinites.- Wide Scope vs. 'Anti-Distributivity'.- Subject index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048184886
• ISBN13: 9789048184880
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"