Comments on: Kratzer on Indefinites http://semantics-online.org/2004/09/kratzer-on-indefinites A weblog on semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and intersections thereof Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:34:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Tony Marmo http://semantics-online.org/2004/09/kratzer-on-indefinites#comment-147 Tony Marmo Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:19:32 +0000 http://www.semantics-online.org/wp/uncategorized/2004/09/kratzer-on-indefinites#comment-147 <p>The importance of this paper by is evident: the discrepancies between <i>natural human</i> and <i>artificial logic</i> languages <b>are</b> always illuminating. Particularly, the case of human language <b>indefintes</b> and their <b>non-direct</b> 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. </p> <p>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.</p> <p>It is another happy coincidence that I have posted a link to <a href="http://tonymarmo.tripod.com/linguistix-logik/index.blog?entry_id=451472" rel="nofollow">Kratzer's paper</a> in my blog. We are all her fans.</p> 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.

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