Van Der Auwera Johan (ed.) The Semantics of Determiners

Routledge, 2014. Oxon, UK. — 310 pages. — ISBN: 978-0-415-64438-9 (Set) eISBN: 978-0-203-07902-7 (Set) ISBN: 978-0-415-72378-7 (Volume 24) eISBN: 978-1-315-85735-0 (Volume 24)This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The majority of the contributions focus on the semantics of the definite and indefinite articles, leading into discussions of anaphoricness, specificness, opacity and transparency, referentiality and attributiveness and genericness.The language under investigation is mostly English, although a few papers deal with French and German, and, to a lesser extent, with Dutch, Polish, Russian and Hebrew.The relation of the determiners to other parts of grammar, in particular relativisation and predication, is also investigated. Some attention is also given to quantifiers.Any as Universal or Existential?
On Surface Definite Articles in English
Coreference and Interreference in Anaphoric Relations: Grammatical Semantics or Pragmatics?
The Meaning of the English Definite Article
Demonstratives and the I-sayer
Definite and Indefinite Generies
Determination with and without Articles
Determiners and the Syntax of Pronominals, Relativisation and Modifier-shift
Opacity and Transparency: A Pragmatic View
Linguistic Considerations on Reference
Existential Presuppositions and the Choice of Head NP Determiner in English Restrictive Relative Clauses
Indefinites, Exemplars and Kinds
Quantifier Floating in German
Articles of Association: Determiners and Context
Some Reflections on the French Article System
Notes on Contributors