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By Johan Van Der Auwera

This booklet is a suite of linguistic and philosophical papers facing the semantic difficulties of determiners. The language less than research is usually English, even supposing a couple of papers care for French and German, and, to a lesser volume, with Dutch, Polish, Russian and Hebrew. nearly all of the contributions specialize in the semantics of the certain and indefinite articles, top into discussions of anaphoricness, specificness, opacity and transparency, referentiality and attributiveness and genericness. The relation of the determiners to different components of grammar, particularly relativisation and predication, can also be investigated. a few awareness is usually given to quantifiers. within the spirit of pluralism, there's no unmarried paradigm unifying all of the papers, relatively, the quantity displays components of the prolonged regular thought, Generative Semantics, Montague Grammar, (Gricean) Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory.

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