TY - BOOK ID - 960023 TI - What counts PY - 2000 SN - 026258185X 026208287X 0262275295 1423737857 9780262275293 9781423737858 9780262082877 9780262581851 PB - Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Grammar KW - 801.56 KW - Syntaxis. Semantiek KW - Focus (Linguistics) KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Semantics KW - Pragmatics KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Quantifiers KW - Determiners KW - Pragmatics. KW - Semantics. KW - Determiners. KW - Quantifiers. KW - 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek KW - Focus (Linguistics). KW - Pragmalinguistics KW - Formal semantics KW - Semasiology KW - Semiology (Semantics) KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Determinatives (Linguistics) KW - Determiners (Linguistics) KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Lexicology KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - General semantics KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Semantics (Philosophy) KW - Quantifiers (Linguistics) KW - Classifiers (Linguistics) KW - Definiteness (Linguistics) KW - Discourse analysis KW - Philosophy KW - Topic and comment KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:960023 AB - In What Counts, Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects the pragmatics and truth conditions of a sentence by rearranging its quantificational structure.Adopting a neo-Davidsonian stance, Herburger claims that various pragmatic and truth-conditional effects of focus sustain a uniform explanation if focus is viewed as imposing structure on otherwise unrestricted quantification. Phenomena discussed include "free" focus, the interaction between focus and negation, the quantificational structure of adverbs of quantification, the semantics of only and even, and the differences between weak and strong determiners.One of Herburger's aims is to show that a simple semantics, without reliance on such notions as semantic presupposition, can account for the truth-conditional and pragmatic effects of focus. The book will be of interest to anyone exploring the syntax-semantics interface and current theories of quantification.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 36 ER -