Quantification in Natural Languages

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Emmon Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer, Barbara H. Partee

   Pages 1-11

3. A Note on Quantification and Blankets in Haisla

   • Emmon Bach

   Pages 13-20

4. On the Absence of Certain Quantifiers in Mohawk

   • Mark C. Baker

   Pages 21-58

5. Quantification in Eskimo: A Challenge for Compositional Semantics

   • Maria Bittner

   Pages 59-80

6. Remarks on Definiteness in Warlpiri

   • Maria Bittner, Ken Hale

   Pages 81-105

7. The Variability of Impersonal Subjects

   • Gennaro Chierchia

   Pages 107-143

8. On Quantifier Strength and Partitive Noun Phrases

   • Ileana Comorovski

   Pages 145-177

9. Quantification in Correlatives

   • Veneeta Dayal

   Pages 179-205

10. A-Quantifiers and Scope in Mayali

    • Nick Evans

    Pages 207-270

11. Towards a Typology of Natural Logic

    • Leonard M. Faltz

    Pages 271-319

12. Universal Quantifiers and Distributivity

    • David Gil

    Pages 321-362

13. Diachronic Sources of ‘All’ and ‘Every’

    • Martin Haspelmath

    Pages 363-382

14. Mass and Count Quantifiers

    • James Higginbotham

    Pages 383-419

15. On the Characterization of the Weak-Strong Distinction

    • Helen De Hoop

    Pages 421-450

16. On the Quantificational Force of English Free Relatives

    • Pauline Jacobson

    Pages 451-486

17. Quantification in Straits Salish

    • Eloise Jelinek

    Pages 487-540

18. Quantificational Structures and Compositionality

    • Barbara H. Partee

    Pages 541-601

19. Bare Noun Phrases, Verbs and Quantification in ASL

    • Karen Petronio

    Pages 603-618

20. Quantification, Events, and Gerunds

    • Paul Portner

    Pages 619-659

This volume of papers grew out of a research project on "Cross-Linguistic Quantification" originated by Emmon Bach, Angelika Kratzer and Barbara Partee in 1987 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and supported by National Science Foundation Grant BNS 871999. The publication also reflects directly or indirectly several other related activ­ ities. Bach, Kratzer, and Partee organized a two-evening symposium on cross-linguistic quantification at the 1988 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans (held without financial support) in order to bring the project to the attention of the linguistic community and solicit ideas and feedback from colleagues who might share our concern for developing a broader typological basis for research in semantics and a better integration of descriptive and theoretical work in the area of quantification in particular. The same trio organized a six-week workshop and open lecture series and related one-day confer­ ence on the same topic at the 1989 LSA Linguistic Institute at the University of Arizona in Tucson, supported by a supplementary grant, NSF grant BNS-8811250, and Partee offered a seminar on the same topic as part of the Institute course offerings. Eloise Jelinek, who served as a consultant on the principal grant and was a participant in the LSA symposium and the Arizona workshops, joined the group of editors for this volume in 1989.

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`We recommend unreservedly its careful and patient study to anyone with the slightest interest in the empirical facts and/or (their implications for) the formal properties of quantification.'
Linguistics, 34 (1996)

• University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA

  Emmon Bach, Angelika Kratzer, Barbara H. Partee

• University of Arizona, USA

  Eloise Jelinek

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