Quantificational Topics

Addressing an issue that has puzzled the linguistics community for many years, this detailed book offers a novel approach to the exceptional wide scope behaviour of indefinites. It is the first book explicitly dedicated to exceptional wide scope phenomena.

Provides a comprehensive, detailed and lucid survey of previous approaches to the problem of exceptional wide scope, a major topic in formal semantics The author's carefully motivated and explicated approach defines new standards of argumentation and theory building in a notoriously vague field

Inhalt
Topicality.- Genuine and Apparent Scope Readings.- Exceptional Wide Scope.- Semantic Effects of Topicality.- ExceptionalWide Scope as a Topic Phenomenon.- Conclusion.