Quantifiers, Deduction, and Context

Makoto Kanazawa, Christopher Piñón, Henriëtte de Swart · Center for the Study of Language and Information eBooks · 1996

1. The Context-Dependency of Implicit Arguments 2. A Deductive Account of Quantification in LFG 3. The Sorites Fallacy and the Context-dependence of Vague Predicates 4. Presuppositions and Information Updating 5. Indefeasible semantics and Defeasible Pragmatics 6. Pronoun Interpretation Preferences: an Account 7. Resumptive Quantifiers in Exception Sentences 8. (In)definites and genericity.

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