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Hardcover Something Out of Nothing: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Implicit Quantification Book

ISBN: 9004431489

ISBN13: 9789004431485

Something Out of Nothing: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Implicit Quantification

Some sentences contain no overt quantifier, yet are interpreted quantificationally, e.g., Plumbers are available (entailing that some plumbers are available), or Plumbers are intelligent (whose entailment is less clear, but seems to be saying that a large number of plumbers are intelligent). Where does the quantifier come from? In this book, Ariel Cohen makes the novel proposal that the quantifier is not simply an empty category, but...

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