Determiners and Quantifiers

Functions, Variation, and Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-47331-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 683 g

Reihe: Syntax and Semantics

This volume explores the interface between morphosyntax and semantics-pragmatics in the domain of referential and quantificational nominal expressions. We present case studies from Romance and Germanic languages, dealing with both synchronic and diachronic aspects. Our aim is to empirically test, on the basis of comparative data, the most recent theoretical developments in the analysis of reference and quantification and to identify focal points for future research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gianollo, Chiara

Heusinger, Klaus von

Napoli, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Abbreviations

1 Reference and Quantification in Nominal Phrases: The Current Landscape and the Way Ahead

Chiara Gianollo, Klaus von Heusinger and Maria Napoli

2 Definite Plural Generics in English: Evidence from De-adjectival Nominalization

Artemis Alexiadou

3 Quantification and Classification in Romance Plural Indefinites: From Number to Seinsart?

Mario Squartini

4 Topics and the Interpretation of Referential Null Subjects

Manuel Leonetti

5 Specificity and Questions of Specification

Edgar Onea

6 Being Bare: A Survey of Quantifier Positions

Cecilia Poletto

7 Indefinites as Fossils: The Case of wh-based Free Choice

Maria Aloni

8 The Evaluative Meaning of the Indefinite qualunque in (Old) Italian

Olga Kellert

9 Bare and Indefinite Nominal Predicates in the History of German

Svetlana Petrova

Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Chiara Gianollo is Associate Professor in General and Historical Linguistics at the University of Bologna. Her main research areas are diachronic syntax and semantics, with specific focus on the use of formal theoretical linguistics to investigate the history of Greek, Latin, and Old Romance.

Klaus von Heusinger is Professor in General and German Linguistics at the University of Cologne. He works and publishes in theoretical and comparative linguistics with a focus on referential categories, such as (in)definiteness, specificity, and partitivity, and on Differential Object Marking in Germanic, Romance and Altaic languages.

Maria Napoli is Associate Professor in General and Historical Linguistics at the University of Eastern Piedmont. She obtained her PhD at the University of Pisa (2003). She is the Author of several contributions mainly dealing with language change (in Indo-European languages), syntax-semantics interface, diachronic typology.