What counts : focus and quantification /

In What Counts, Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects the pragmatics and truth conditions of a sentence by rearranging its quantificational structure.Adopting a neo-Davidsonian stance, Herburger claims that various pragmatic and truth-co...

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Main Author:	Herburger, Elena
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000. ©2000
Series:	Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 36
Subjects:	Focus (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general > Quantifiers. Grammar, Comparative and general > Determiners. Semantics. Pragmatics. LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book