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On Quantifier Domain Restriction
Author(s) -
Stanley Jason,
Gendler Szabó Zoltán
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0017.00130
Subject(s) - quantifier (linguistics) , domain (mathematical analysis) , context (archaeology) , phenomenon , computer science , set (abstract data type) , mathematics , linguistics , theoretical computer science , artificial intelligence , epistemology , programming language , philosophy , history , mathematical analysis , archaeology
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of the space of possible analyses of the phenomenon of quantifier domain restriction, together with a set of considerations which militate against all but our own proposal. Among the many accounts we consider and reject are the ‘explicit’ approach to quantifier domain restric‐tion discussed, for example, by Stephen Neale, and the pragmatic approach to quantifier domain restriction proposed by Kent Bach. Our hope is that the exhaustive discussion of this special case of context‐dependence will provide guidelines for how to decide, for an arbitrary case of context‐dependent discourse, whether it should be treated syntactically, semantically, or pragmatically.