Isbn: 9780792333524 - quantification in natural languages: volume i (studies in linguistics and philosophy, band 54) (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. This volume of papers grew outof a research project on Cross-Linguistic Quantification originated by Emmon Bach, Angelika Kratzer and Barbara Partee in 1987 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and supported by National Science Foundation Grant .

Zustand: New. A collection of papers putting ideas on quantification to work on a variety of languages. With an introduction presenting a sketch of the background of the research, this book consists of research papers aimed at linguists, philosophers, and psychologists interested in semantics and linguistic form. Editor(s): Bach, Elke; Jelinek, Eloise (Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA); Kratzer, Angelika; Partee, Barbara B. H. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 769 pages, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JMR; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1260. . 1995. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume of papers grew outof a research project on 'Cross-Linguistic Quantification' originated by Emmon Bach, Angelika Kratzer and Barbara Partee in 1987 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and supported by National Science Foundation Grant BNS 871999. The publication also reflects directly or indirectly several other related activ ities. Bach, Kratzer, and Partee organized a two-evening symposium on cross-linguistic quantification at the 1988 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans (held without financial support) in order to bring the project to the attention of the linguistic community and solicit ideas and feedback from colleagues who might share our concern for developing a broader typological basis for research in semantics and a better integration of descriptive and theoretical work in the area of quantification in particular. The same trio organized a six-week workshop and open lecture series and related one-day confer ence on the same topic at the 1989 LSA Linguistic Institute at the University of Arizona in Tucson, supported by a supplementary grant, NSF grant BNS-8811250, and Partee offered a seminar on the same topic as part of the Institute course offerings. Eloise Jelinek, who served as a consultant on the principal grant and was a participant in the LSA symposium and the Arizona workshops, joined the group of editors for this volume in 1989. …