'And' : conjunction reduction redux

'And' : conjunction reduction redux / Barry Schein.

In this book, Barry Schein argues that "and" is always the sentential logical connective with the same, one, meaning. "And" always means " &," across the varied constructions in which it is tokened in natural language. Schein examines the constructions that challeng...

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Main Author: Schein, Barry (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Subjects:
And (The English word)
English language > Conjunctions.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Conjunctions.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Coordinate constructions.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Sentences.
Generative grammar.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
English language > Conjunctions
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general > Conjunctions
Grammar, Comparative and general > Coordinate constructions
Grammar, Comparative and general > Sentences
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.0 Univocal and; 1.1 The slippery slope to Conjunction Reduction; 1.2 Conjunction Reduction restrained; 1.3 A new clausal architecture; 1.4 Supermonadicity; 1.5 Descriptive event pronouns; 1.6 Adverbialization; 1.7 Spatiotemporal orientation; 1.8 Identity statements simpliciter and conditioned; 1.9 Contextualism logicized; 2 DP and DP; 2.0 Coordinating generalized quantifiers, and the syntax and semantics of collectivized Right-Node Raising; 2.1 Syntax and semantics for DP and DP; 2.2 Number agreement; 2.3 Number agreement in Lebanese Arabic
  • 2.4 Coordination and subordination in Davidsonian logical form2.5 First-conjunct agreement (with conjoined (in)definite descriptions); 2.6 Comitative phrases and number agreement in other languages; 2.7 Summary; 3 PredP and PredP: Of Subjects and Ancient Grievance; 3.0 Of subjects and ancient grievance; 3.1 Scope and reconstruction into subject position; 3.2 Case's place; 3.3 Null coordinative pronouns; 3.4 Reference under the eaves; 3.5 Quantifier Lowering into collectivized Right-Node Raised constituents; 3.6 Appendix: Economy and reconstruction; 3.7 Summary
  • 4 PredP and PredP: Coordination vs. Subordination4.0 PredP and PredP: Coordinating supermonadic PredPs. Phrasing-complementation-quantification; 4.1 (Tense+) Aux sharing; 4.2 Bound morphemes and affixation under coordination; 5 PredP and PredP: (Tense+) Aux Sharing; 5.0 Progressive be; 5.1 Perfect have; 6 PredP and PredP: Complementation as a Condition on Subatomic Event Anaphora; 6.0 The distribution of the disjunctive interpretation; 6.1 The logical syntax of the disjunctive interpretation; 6.2 Deriving the distribution of the disjunctive interpretation; 6.3 Coordinating simple tensed verbs
  • 7 PredP and PredP: Conclusion8 Introducing Adverbialization and Cinerama; 8.0 Previously ... ; 8.1 The several faces of NP1 and NP2: Puzzles of extensional substitutivity; 8.2 Spatiotemporal orientation and adverbialization; 8.3 Coming attractions; 9 Cinerama Semantics; 9.0 Reference mise-en-scène; 9.1 Referring to frames of reference; 9.2 Scenes for spatial orientation and navigation; 9.3 The narration of visual experience, and narrative as artifact; 9.4 Cinema verité; 10 Adverbialization in Logical Form
  • 10.0 The dependence of Tense and temporal reference on the descriptive content of nominal quantifiers10.1 Mode-of-presentation effects: Substitutivity failures in simple sentences; 10.2 Analytic, nonlogical substitutivity; 10.3 Neighborhood watch: The view from symmetric predicates; 10.4 Further consequences of adverbialization and supermonadicity: NPs as event descriptions; 10.5 Summary; 11 Naive Reference for the Cinéaste; 11.0 A certain sequence of events; 11.1 Recounts; 12 Measuring Events; 12.0 Counting with reference to events; 12.1 Numerals

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