Foreword 1 Introducing Determination 1.1 Preamble 1.2 Empirical
coverage: a case study 1.2.1 The
determiners of English 1.2.2 Parts of
speech 1.2.2.1 Against 'Q(P)' 1.2.2.2 Against 'Det' 1.3 The NP
tradition revisited 1.3.1 Determiners,
pronouns and 'Ø-nouns' 1.3.2 Head
hunting: against the DP Hypothesis 1.3.3 The case
for genitive case 1.4 Conclusions 2 Meaning and Multilingual Data 2.1 Preamble
2.2 Methodology
for semantic notions 2.2.1 On
denotation and reference 2.2.2 The
interdisciplinary scenario 2.3 Insights
from a contrastive analysis 2.3.1 Articles 2.3.1.1 Definite vs. indefinite 2.3.1.2 Plural, uncountables, partitive
article 2.3.2
Demonstratives 2.3.3 Possessives 2.3.4
Quantitatives 2.3.4.1 The lexical field of quantity/amount 2.3.4.2 Quantitatives across languages 2.3.5 Cardinals 2.3.6 Ordinals 2.4 Conclusions
3 Basic Semantic Modelling 3.1 Preamble
3.2 Logical
background 3.2.1 Logical
form and definiteness conditions 3.2.2 Generalized
Quantifier Theory 3.2.2.1 Compositional NP interpretation 3.2.2.2 Semantic determiners and related
issues 3.3 Towards
feature-theoretic semantics 3.3.1
Quantification and semantics in HPSG 3.3.2 Semantic
features of determination 3.3.2.1 On the range of reference 3.3.2.2 Definiteness revisited 3.4 Conclusions
4 HPSG and the Noun Phrase 4.1 Preamble
4.2 From
X-bar Theory to HPSG 4.2.1 Phrase
structure patterns 4.2.2 Lexical
selection of dependents 4.3 A
cross-linguistic NP analysis 4.3.1 Determiners
as specifiers or adjuncts 4.3.1.1 On multiple determination 4.3.1.2 Lexical selection of heads 4.3.2 Plurals
between semantics and syntax 4.4 Conclusions
5 Extended Formal Treatment 5.1 Preamble 5.2 The
syntactic framework 5.2.1 Phrase
structure constraints in HPSG 5.2.2 Functors
for a 'construction theory' 5.2.3 The marking
system of determination 5.3 On the
syntax-semantics interface 5.3.1 A
lexicalist account of quantifier scope 5.3.2 The proper
treatment of proper names 5.3.2.1 Problems with individual terms 5.3.2.2 Naming, quantification and
indexicality 5.4 Conclusions
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