Research Catalog

Title

Flexibility principles in boolean semantics : the interpretation of coordination, plurality and scope in natural language / Yoad Winter.

Author

Winter, Yoad

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2002.

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Description

x, 297 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Current studies in linguistics ; 37

Uniform Title

Current studies in linguistics series ; 37.

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Coordinate constructions
• Definiteness (Linguistics)
• Semantics
• Algebra, Boolean

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Introduction. Questions about Coordination, Plurality and Scope. Foundational Assumptions. Flexibility Principles in Boolean Semantics. Flexibility Principles in the Analysis of Coordination, Plurality and Scope. Technical Background. The Organization of the Book -- Ch. 2. Coordination and Collectivity. The Plurality-Coordination Problem. Previous Proposals. A Flexible Boolean Approach. On Predicate Conjunction within the Boolean Framework -- Ch. 3. The Choice-Function Treatment of Indefinites. The Scopal Semantics of Indefinites: Background. Indefinites and the Plurality Problem. The Scope and Distributivity of Numeral Indefinites: A Choice Function Account. The Formal Semantics of Choice Functions. On the Conceptual Organization of the Theory. App.: A Variable-Free Implementation -- Ch. 4. Predicate-Quantifier Flexibility. Flexibility and Predicative Nominals: The Problem and Previous Proposals. Category-Shifting Principles. Syntactic Restrictions on Category Shifting.
• Problems of Typing Strategies. A Toy Grammar -- Ch. 5. Plural Quantification and the Atom/Set Distinction. The Problem: Plural Quantification and the Semantic Number of Predicates. Previous Proposals. Atom Predicates versus Set Predicates. The Characterization of Semantic Number. Quantification over Sets. On Bunch-Denoting Nouns and Atom Constitution. A Case Study: Every, All, The and Member of -- Ch. 6. On Distributivity. The Motivation for Distributive Readings. Atomic Distributivity versus Non-atomic Distributivity. The Compositional Sources of Q-Distributivity. Distributivity in the Present Analysis: Recapitulation -- Ch. 7. Conclusions.

ISBN

0262232189 (hc. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001044334

OCLC

• 49411825
• ocm49411825
• SCSB-4255063

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Columbia University Libraries