Grammar of French Quantification

Grammar of French Quantification

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Baunaz Lena
Springer
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This book is the first extensive study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax. It provides a typology of four main quantified noun phrases in French (existential, universal, negative and wh-), detailing their syntactic, semantic and prosodic behaviors and showing that they can be reduced to two classes—Split-DP structures or Floating quantification.

Relying on syntax and semantics, the book establishes a three-way structural typology of wh in-situ phrases and extends it to existentials. It pays special attention to the prosodic properties associated with their different readings and proposes an analysis of the distribution of subextraction and pied-piping. Similarly based on semantic and syntactic tests, the book reveals N(egative) words to be universal Quantifiers. It proposes a new structure of N-words in terms of constituent negation and includes a detailed analysis of the difference between not an N and not all the N in French.

EAN 9789400735521
ISBN 9400735529
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Springer
Publication date April 21, 2013
Pages 260
Language English
Dimensions 235 x 155
Country Netherlands
Readership Professional & Scholarly
Authors Baunaz Lena
Illustrations XII, 260 p.
Edition 2011 ed.
Series Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory