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Kock, Christian. 1981. Non-truth-conditional quantification. In Parret, Herman, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren, eds. Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. John Benjamins. pp. 359–370.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

lexical meaning | quantification | truth-conditional semantics

Annotation

K. demonstrates that a large group of lexical items, which are normally regarded as semantic units, resist analysis in terms of truth conditions and can only be explained if natural language is seen as purposive action for the furtherance of speakers' interests and needs.