Semantics of Determiners (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)

<p>This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigation is mostly English although a few papers deal with French and German and to a lesser extent with Dutch Polish Russian and Hebrew. The majority of the contributions focus on the semantics of the definite and indefinite articles leading into discussions of anaphoricness specificness opacity and transparency referentiality and attributiveness and genericness. The relation of the determiners to other parts of grammar in particular relativisation and predication is also investigated. Some attention is also given to quantifiers. In the spirit of pluralism there is no single paradigm unifying all the papers rather the volume reflects elements of the Extended Standard Theory Generative Semantics Montague Grammar (Gricean) Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory.</p>