The semantics of plurals, focus, degrees, and times : essays in honor of Roger Schwarzschild /: essays in honor of Roger Schwarzschild. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Daniel Altshuler, Jessica Rett, editors.
• Editors: Altshuler, Daniel, 1981-; Rett, Jessica
• Contents: Preface; D. Altshuler & J. Rett.- Part I: The semantics of nouns and plurals.- A Chapter in the History of Formal Semantics: Plurals; B.H. Partee.- Intensions, Types, and Models: Remarks on some developments in formal semantics; T.E. Zimmermann.- Singleton Inde_nites and the Privacy Principle: Certain Puzzles; V. Dayal.- Why is attributive `heavy' distributive? K. McKinney-Bock & R. Pancheva.- Factivity meets polarity: On two differences between Italian vs. English factives; G. Chierchia.- Part II: The semantics of focus; Topless and Salient - Convertibles in the Theory of Focus; D. Büring.- New vs. Given; A. Kratzer & E.Selkirk.- The semantics of degree.- Equatives and Maximality; L. Crnič & D. Fox.- The perils of interpreting comparatives with pronouns for children and adults; K. Syrett & V. Gor.- Differentials crosslinguistically; R. Bhatt & V. Homer.- Subjectivity and Gradability: on the semantics of the possessive property concept construction in Mandarin Chinese; X. Li.- Part III: The semantics of tense and aspect.- Did Socrates die? A note on the moment of change; S. Zucchi.- Adverbs of Change; T. Koev.- Since; K. von Fintel & S. Iatridou.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 401/.43; Semantics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030044381; 3030044386
• Related ISBNs: 9783030044374
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 13, 2019).
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