Generalized Quantifiers: Linguistic and Logical Approaches

✍ Scribed by Jon Barwise (auth.), Peter Gärdenfors (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 31
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Some fifteen years ago, research on generalized quantifiers was con­ sidered to be a branch of mathematical logic, mainly carried out by mathematicians. Since then an increasing number of linguists and philosophers have become interested in exploring the relevance of general quantifiers for natural language as shown by the bibliography compiled for this volume. To a large extent, the new research has been inspired by Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper's path-breaking article "Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language" from 1981. A concrete sign of this development was the workshop on this topic at Lund University, May 9-11, 1985, which was organized by Robin Cooper, Elisabet Engdahl, and the present editor. All except two of the papers in this volume derive from that workshop. Jon Barwise's paper in the volume is different from the one he presented in connection with the workshop. Mats Rooth's contribution has been added because of its close relationship with the rest of the papers. The articles have been revised for publication here and the authors have commented on each other's contributions in order to integrate the collection. The organizers of the workshop gratefully acknowledge support from the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Philosophy and the Faculty of Humanities at Lund University, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (through the Wallenberg Foundation), the Swedish Institute, and the Letterstedt Foundation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Noun Phrases, Generalized Quantifiers and Anaphora....Pages 1-29
Towards a Computational Semantics....Pages 31-71
Preliminaries to the Treatment of Generalized Quantifiers in Situation Semantics....Pages 73-91
There-Sentences and Generalized Quantifiers....Pages 93-107
Unreducible N-Ary Quantifiers in Natural Language....Pages 109-150
Generalized Quantifiers and Plurals....Pages 151-180
Natural Language and Generalized Quantifier Theory....Pages 181-201
Collective Readings of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases....Pages 203-235
Noun Phrase Interpretation in Montague Grammar, File Change Semantics, and Situation Semantics....Pages 237-268
Branching Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language....Pages 269-298
Back Matter....Pages 299-309

✦ Subjects

Linguistics (general)