Something out of Nothing: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Implicit Quantification
Author | : Ariel Cohen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2020-06-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004432590 |
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In this book, Ariel Cohen makes the novel proposal that an implicit quantifier isn’t simply an empty category, but is generated by well-defined reinterpretation mechanisms. He demonstrates how this theory naturally accounts for puzzling properties of implicit quantification.