This volume explores the interpretation of indefinites and the
constraints on their distribution by paying particular attention to key
issues in the interface between syntax and semantics: the relation
between the semantic properties of indefinite determiners and the
denotation of indefinite DPs, their scope, and their behaviour in
generic and conditional sentences. Examples come from French, other
Romance languages and English. Central to the proposed analyses is a
distinction between two types of entities, individualized entities and
amounts. Weak indefinites are analyzed as existential generalized
quantifiers over amounts and strong indefinites as either Skolem terms
or generalized quantifiers over individualized entities. The up-to-date
review of the literature and the new falsifiable proposals contained in
this book will be of particular interest to linguistics students and
scholars interested in the cross-linguistic semantics of indefinites.