{"product_id":"indefinites-molly-diesing-9780262540667","title":"Indefinites","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndefinites\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the relationship between the syntactic and semantic representations of sentences within the framework of generative grammar. It proposes a means of relating government-binding theory, which is primarily syntactic, to the semantic theory of noun phrase interpretation developed by Kamp and Heim, and introduces a novel mapping algorithm that describes the relation between syntactic configurations and logical representations. Diesing focuses on the problem of deriving logical representations from syntactic representations of sentences, with an emphasis on issues of quantification and the interpretation of indefinites. The two central questions addressed are the possible semantic interpretations of indefinites and quantificational noun phrases, and the role played by syntactic representation in deriving the semantic representation of noun phrases. The mapping algorithm used is applied to derive the logical representations of indefinites to a wide range of syntactic and semantic phenomena in German including scrambling, VP-deletion, and extraction from NP.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Molly Diesing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262540665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262540667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.03w x 0.44d","brand":"Molly Diesing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913521791231,"sku":"9780262540667","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_55b6dffa-b7b3-4b32-b120-c14eff9bd8be.jpg?v=1680620827","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/indefinites-molly-diesing-9780262540667","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}