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Indefinites and the Type of Sets
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1631-2
Paperback
304 pages
February 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgements.

Reading this book at different levels.

Introduction.

1. Numerical Adjectives and the Type of Sets.

2. The Adjectival Theory of Indefinite Predicates and Arguments.

3. The Variable Constraint on Predicates and There-Insertion Subjects.

4. Problems for Weak-Strong Analyses of There-Insertion Subjects.

5. There-Insertion Subjects as Subjects Adjoined to Verb Phrases.

6. There-Insertion Subjects Adjoined to Saturated Predicates.

7. Some Questions about There-Insertion in Dutch.

8. The Problem of Negative Noun Phrases.

9. Relational Indefinites and Semantic Incorporation.

10. Definite Time-Adverbials and Event Measures.

11. Indefinite Time-Adverbials and the Counting-Grid.

References.

Index.