02137nam a22003498a 4500 CR9780511781681 UkCbUP 20180107143412.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100519s2010||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511781681 (ebook) 9780521887960 (hardback) 9780521715935 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda P325 .S968 2010 415 22 Szabolcsi, Anna, author. Quantification / [electronic resource] Anna Szabolcsi. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Research Surveys in Linguistics Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the foundational work in the 1970s. It paints a vivid picture of generalized quantifiers and Boolean semantics. It explains how the discovery of diverse scope behaviour in the 1990s transformed the view of quantification, and how the study of the internal composition of quantifiers has become central in recent years. It presents different approaches to the same problems, and links modern logic and formal semantics to advances in generative syntax. A unique feature of the book is that it systematically brings cross-linguistic data to bear on the theoretical issues, covering French, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Japanese, Telugu (Dravidian), and Shupamem (Grassfield Bantu) and points to formal semantic literature involving quantification in around thirty languages. Semantics Print version: 9780521887960 Research Surveys in Linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511781681 Cambridge Books Online 236523 236523