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Description of  Something out of Nothing: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Implicit Quantification (Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface, 38)

9004431489 pdf In this book, Ariel Cohen makes the novel proposal that an implicit quantifier isnt simply an empty category, but is generated by well-defined reinterpretation mechanisms. He demonstrates how this theory naturally accounts for puzzling properties of implicit quantification.