Ways of scope taking
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Ways of scope taking
zbMATH Open document ID: 0889.68121
published in: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
publication date: 1998-01-18T00:00:00Z
review text: [The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] The book represents a unitary collection of papers devoted to linguistic quantification modelling, viz. an important contribution of the well-known UCLA school on computational linguistics. Some words about the studies contained: (1) Background Notions in Lattice Theory and Generalized Quantifiers (\textit{A. Szabolcsi}) offers an informal introduction to the pertinent notions necessary to (generalized) quantification theory. The paper (2) Variation, Distributivity, and the Illusion of Branching (\textit{F. Beghelli}, \textit{D. Ben-Shalom}, \textit{A. Szabolcsi}) shows that the usual notion of quantifier scope needs to be factored into variation, distributivity, and maximality, making a novel claim on the behaviour of quantifiers within the syntactic structure (branching reading) of a sentence. The paper (3) Distributivity and Negation: The Syntax of Each and Every (\textit{F. Beghelli}, \textit{T. Stowell}) is concerned with the syntax and semantics of quantifier scope construal, focusing on the distributive quantifiers ``every'' and ``each'', and their interaction with negation. (4) Strategies for Scope Taking (\textit{A. Szabolcsi}) proposed that Beghelli and Stowell's logical form (LF) to be quite directly mapped onto a modified discours representation by widening the class of discourse referents, the proposal being supported by Hungarian linguistic data. (5) Computing Quantifier Scope (\textit{E. P. Stabler}) offers a new perspective on the issue of how semantic properties of noun phrases may effect their scopal syntactic abilities. The approach is implemented within a novel formalization of minimalist syntax and applied to Benghelli and Stowell's theory of quantifiers. The aim of (6) Evaluation Indices and Scope (\textit{D. F. Farkas}) is to propose a theory in which the relative scope of two expressions is a matter of possible dependencies between indices; empirical coverage is invstigated on no…
reviewed by: Neculai Curteanu
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68T50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68-02
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00B15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91F20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68Q42
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68N20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03B65
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68-06
zbMATH DE Number: 1105207
zbMATH Keywords: Scope taking
zbMATH Keywords: pair-quantification
zbMATH Keywords: linguistic quantification modelling
MaRDI profile type: Publication
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1105207