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Addressing an issue that has puzzled the linguistics community for many years, this book offers a novel approach to the exceptional wide scope behaviour of indefinites. It is the first book explicitly dedicated to exceptional wide scope phenomena. Its unique approach offers an explanation for the fact that it is only a proper subset of the indefinites that shows this exceptional wide scope behaviour. The author draws a careful distinction between genuine and apparent scope readings, a distinction that is usually not taken care of and has thus led to certain confusions. In particular, it is argued that functional readings have to be kept strictly apart from non-functional ones and that all proposals that use functional mechanisms to explain the phenomena at hand face severe problems. The existing body of literature on the main issues of the book is thoroughly reviewed. This makes the book well suited as background literature for graduate seminars on those topics.

Discourse analysis. --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Quantifiers. --- Topic and comment. --- Linguistics. --- Semantics. --- Theoretical Linguistics. --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Quantifiers (Linguistics) --- Discourse analysis --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Quantifiers --- Topic and comment --- Subject and predicate --- Syntax --- Focus (Linguistics). --- Sciences humaines. --- Sciences sociales. --- Theoretical Languages.

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Lexicology. Semantics --- Linguistics --- semantiek --- linguïstiek

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