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  title info:
    title: What counts
    sub title: focus and quantification
  name:
    name part: Herburger, Elena.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: ©2000
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 166 pages).
  abstract: 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-conditional effects of focus sustain a uniform explanation if focus is viewed as imposing structure on otherwise unrestricted quantification. Phenomena discussed include "free" focus, the interaction between focus and negation, the quantificational structure of adverbs of quantification, the semantics of only and even, and the differences between weak and strong determiners.One of Herburger's aims is to show that a simple semantics, without reliance on such notions as semantic presupposition, can account for the truth-conditional and pragmatic effects of focus. The book will be of interest to anyone exploring the syntax-semantics interface and current theories of quantification.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 36
  note: Elena Herburger.
  subject:
    topic: Focus (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Quantifiers
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Determiners
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Pragmatics
  subject:
    topic: LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General
  classification: P299.F63 H47 2000eb
  classification: 415
  identifier: 9780262275293
  identifier: 0262275295
  identifier: 1423737857
  identifier: 9781423737858
  identifier: 026208287X
  identifier: 026258185X
  identifier: 9780262082877
  identifier: 9780262581851
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 051123
    record change date: 20221121162335.7
    record identifier: in00004600784
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng