This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The majority of the contributions focus on the semantics of the definite and indefinite articles, leading into discussions of anaphoricness, specificness, opacity and transparency, referentiality and attributiveness and genericness.

The language under investigation is mostly English, although a few papers deal with French and German, and, to a lesser extent, with Dutch, Polish, Russian and Hebrew.
The relation of the determiners to other parts of grammar, in particular relativisation and predication, is also investigated. Some attention is also given to quantifiers.

Table of Contents
Preface
1. Any as Universal or Existential?
2. On Surface Definite Articles in English
3. Coreference and Interreference in Anaphoric Relations: Grammatical Semantics or Pragmatics?
4. The Meaning of the English Definite Article
5. Demonstratives and the I-sayer
6. Definite and Indefinite Generies
7. Determination with and without Articles
8. Determiners and the Syntax of Pronominals, Relativisation and Modifier-shift
9. Opacity and Transparency: A Pragmatic View
10. Linguistic Considerations on Reference
11. Existential Presuppositions and the Choice of Head NP Determiner in English Restrictive Relative Clauses
12. Indefinites, Exemplars and Kinds
13. Quantifier Floating in German
14. Articles of Association: Determiners and Context
15. Some Reflections on the French Article System
Notes on Contributors
Index

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