The Semantics of Plurals, Focus, Degrees, and Times Essays in Honor
This volume is a tribute to Roger Schwarzschild's immense contributions in the formal semantics of nouns, focus, degrees and space, and tense and aspect. Collectively, the papers in the volume reveal parallels across ontological domain
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he Semantics of Plurals, Focus, Degrees, and Times Essays in Honor of Roger Schwarzschild
The Semantics of Plurals, Focus, Degrees, and Times
Daniel Altshuler Jessica Rett •
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The Semantics of Plurals, Focus, Degrees, and Times Essays in Honor of Roger Schwarzschild
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Editors Daniel Altshuler School of Cognitive Science Hampshire College Amherst, MA, USA
Jessica Rett Department of Linguistics University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-04437-4 ISBN 978-3-030-04438-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04438-1
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel Altshuler and Jessica Rett Part I
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The Semantics of Nouns and Plurals
A Chapter in the History of Formal Semantics in the Twentieth Century: Plurals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barbara H. Partee
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Intensions, Types and Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Ede Zimmermann
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Singleton Indefinites and the Privacy Principle: Certain Puzzles . . . . . . Veneeta Dayal
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Why Is Attributive “Heavy” Distributive? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katy McKinney-Bock and Roumyana Pancheva
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Factivity Meets Polarity: On Two Differences Between Italian Versus English Factives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Gennaro Chierchia Part II
The Semantics of Focus
Topless and Salient—Convertibles in the Theory of Focus . . . . . . . . .
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