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The idea that branching of quantifiers occurs in natural languages originates with Hintikka (1973; reprinted in 1974). Hintikka gave several examples of English sentences whose logical analysis, he claimed, requires essential use of partially ordered quantifier prefixes, in particular the so-called Henkin prefix
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Westerståhl, D. (1987). Branching Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language. In: Gärdenfors, P. (eds) Generalized Quantifiers. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3381-1_10
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