Quantification in Natural Languages

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Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers (1995)
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This extended collection of papers is the result of putting recent ideas on quantification to work on a wide variety of languages.

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A challenge for compositional semantics.E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer & B. H. Partee
A Note on Quantification and Blankets in Haisla.Emmon Bach
First, the claim that Mohawk does not have quantificational NPs requires some defense. In fact, Mohawk does have sentences that are near-equiv-alents of sentences with quantificational NPs in English.(1) gives examples in which the word akweku appears with universal force:(1) a. John akweku wa-shako-kv-'. [REVIEW]E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer & B. H. Partee
In this note, we will look at some data that bear on the further question or more specific form of the question: How is quantification expressed in a polysynthetic language like Haisla? Haisla has the following kinds of linguistic elements.E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kraner & B. H. Partee
Isg-3pl-BEN-speakP woman all'I spoke to all the women.'4 (7) a-na-ng bamurru na-wern-gen. 1 sg-see-PP magpie. geese I-many-GEN'I saw many magpie geese.'. [REVIEW]E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer & B. H. Partee
1.1. Lexical Categories Warlpiri has just two major lexical categories, nouns (N) and verbs (V). Morphologically, the distinction between these two categories is clear-cut. Members of the category N inflect for case and combine with derivational morphology associated exclusively with nouns. Members. [REVIEW]E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer & B. H. Partee
Quantification in Natural Languages.Emmon W. Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer & Barbara H. Partee (eds.)
9. towards a typology of natural logic.E. Bach & H. Partee
within ten minutes.(3) a. Almost every boy [CP who gets a balloon] breaks it within ten minutes. b.[PP Out of fifty boys who got a balloon], forty seven broke it within ten mintues. [REVIEW]E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer & B. H. Partee
On the absence of certain quantifiers in Mohawk.Mark C. Baker
Quantification in Eskimo: A Challenge for Compositional Semantics.Maria Bittner
Remarks on definiteness in warlpiri.Maria Bittner & Ken Hale
On quantifier strength and partitive noun phrases.Ileana Comorovski
7. quantification in correlatives.Veneeta Dayal
13. on the characterization of the weak-strong distinction1.Helen De Hoop
A-quantifiers and scope in Mayali.Nick Evans
Towards a typology of natural logic.Leonard M. Faltz
10. Universal Quantifiers And Distributivity.David Gil
11. diachronic sources of 'all'and 'every'.Martin Haspelmath
12. mass and count quantifiers.James Higginbotham
14. on the quantificational force of English free relatives.Pauline Jacobson
In this paper, we discuss some rather puzzling facts concerning the semantics of Warlpiri expressions of cardinality, ie the Warlpiri counterparts of English expressions like one, two, many, how many. The morphosyntactic evidence, discussed in Section 1, suggests that the corresponding expressions in Warlpiri are nominal, just like the.E. Bach E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer & B. H. Partee
15. quantification in straits salish.Eloise Jelinek
Emmon Bach. Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer and.Barbara H. Partee
Quantificational structures and compositionality.Barbara H. Partee
Bare noun phrases, verbs and quantification in ASL.Karen Petronio
Quantification, events, and gerunds.Paul Portner
Domain restriction in dynamic semantics.Craige Roberts
The expression of quantificational notions in Asurini do Trocará: against the universality of determiner quantification.Márcia Damaso Vieira

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