Author: Herburger, Elena
Title: What Counts: Focus and Quantification
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (2000). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiii,166 pp, Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, 36.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Overview & Backround: Sentences as Descriptions of Events; Adverbials as Predicates of Events; Why So Much Decomposition? Negated & Nonnegated Sentences: The Role of Nonfocussed Material; Focal Presuppositions Rethought; Structured Davidsonian Decomposition; Backrounded Focal Entailments & Scope; Postverbal Spanish n-Words as a Diagnostic; Focus & Negation: Bound, Free & Wide Readings; What Is the Negation of a Sentence?; Definite Descriptions, Focus & Negation; Other Negative Contexts; How the Semantics Relates to the Syntax; A Comparison with Earlier Analyses; Appendix: (Non)contrastive Focus & Intonation; Adverbial Quantifiers: Association with Focus: An Instance of Structures Davidsonian Decompositon; When There Is More Than One Adverb; Second Occurence Focus; Embedded Clauses; Quantificational Variability of Indefinites; Focus or VP-Internal versus VP-External? Events or Situations?'Only' & 'Even': Some Syntactic Facts About 'Only'; Conservativity, Focal Mapping & Q-Raising; The Existential Force of 'Only'; The Existential Force of 'Every'; Downward Monotonocity: Weak & Strong; 'Only' Quantifying Over Events; 'Only''s Partner 'Even'; Syntactic Similarities Between 'Only'& 'Even'; Implications & Being Noteworthy; Ambiguous 'Even'-Sentences; The Existential Implicature as Pragmatic Inference; Syntactic & Crosslinguistic Support for the NPI Approach; Conventional Implicature versus Literal Meaning; Determiners: Focus-Affected Noun Phrases: The Basis Phenomenon; Focus-Affected Readings & Q-Raising; Unary Weak

Keywords: Comparative Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics, Theoretical, Quantifiers, Determiners, Semantics, Pragmatics, Semantic Language