Titlebook: Quantification in Natural Languages; Emmon Bach,Eloise Jelinek,Barbara H. Partee Book 1995 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1995 Adver

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Quantification, Events, and Gerunds,tors that may be present in a sentence. Such an analysis is in the spirit of the theories of indefinites of Kamp (1981) and Heim (1982). We will also be able to develop a new argument in favour of the Kamp/Heim framework, a result which has wider significance for understanding quantification in natu

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A-Quantifiers and Scope in Mayali, NP-internal modifier, to explicitly associate the quantifier with the material in its scope, as illustrated by (1)–(5) for English and (6)–(10) for Mayali.. Following Partee, Bach and Kratzer (1987) I shall refer to such quantifiers as D-quantifiers, where D stands for their prototypical determiner function.

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Universal Quantifiers and Distributivity,ier, that which appears in the stock example sentences, ., and so forth. Thus, in the semantic typology of NPs proposed by Kamp (1981), Heim (1982), Partee (1987) and others, NPs of the form [. N] are generally considered to be the most characteristic exemplars of the type referred to as “quantificational” or “essentially quantificational”.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2817-1Adverbial; cognition; grammar; language; natural language; semantic; semantics

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On Quantifier Strength and Partitive Noun Phrases,Since Milsark’s (1974) study of English existential sentences, there have been various explanations for the ‘definiteness effect’, i.e. the fact that only certain noun phrases can occupy the postcopular position in sentences of the form . (hence .-sentences). The definiteness effect is illustrated by the contrast in (1).

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