Angelika Kratzer. “Indefinites and the Operators they Depend on: From Japanese to Salish”. ms, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, final version, July 2004. To appear in G. N. Carlson and F.J. Pelletier (eds.) Reference and Quantification: The Partee Effect. CSLI.
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The importance of this paper by is evident: the discrepancies between natural human and artificial logic languages are always illuminating. Particularly, the case of human language indefintes and their non-direct correspondence with seemingly equivalent logic quantifiers
has become a column of modern formal semantics, wherefore nowadays students have necessarily to learn this as a basic fact.
Kratzer in this paper provides us a very comprehensive picture of this issue, giving the credits to the authors whose work contributed in some manner to this understanding of the phenomena. This is the kind of nice reading that goes well with doughnuts and black tea in one afternoon.
It is another happy coincidence that I have posted a link to Kratzer’s paper in my blog. We are all her fans.
September 20th, 2004, at 2:19 am #