Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification

Katalin É Kiss editor Tamás Zétényi editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:25th Dec '18

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This volume presents the results of psycholinguistic research into various aspects of the grammar of quantification. The investigations involve children and adults, speakers of different languages, using a variety of experimental paradigms. A shared aspect of the studies is that they present their experimental results as evidence evaluating linguistic theories of quantification. Topics discussed include the interpretation of universal, comparative, and superlative quantifiers, quantifier spreading, scope interaction between pairs of quantifiers and between quantifiers and wh-phrases, distributivity and cumulativity, the interaction of quantifier interpretation with information structure, the disambiguating role of prosody, the functional overlap between universal quantification and perfectivity, and much more. The focus on experimental evidence makes this book essential reading for linguists (syntacticians, semanticists and pragmatists), psycholinguists and psychologists interested in quantification.

ISBN: 9783030062552

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 454g

219 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018