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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Quantification in Natural Languages.Emmon W. Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer & Barbara H. Partee (eds.)
Remarks on definiteness in warlpiri.Maria Bittner & Ken Hale
The expression of quantificational notions in Asurini do Trocará: against the universality of determiner quantification.Márcia Damaso Vieira
10. Universal Quantifiers And Distributivity.  (pages 2--321)David Gil
11. diachronic sources of 'all'and 'every'.  (pages 2--363)Martin Haspelmath
12. mass and count quantifiers.  (pages 2--383)James Higginbotham
14. on the quantificational force of English free relatives.  (pages 2--451)Pauline Jacobson
15. quantification in straits salish.  (pages 2--487)Eloise Jelinek
7. quantification in correlatives.  (pages 2--179)Veneeta Dayal
9. towards a typology of natural logic.  (pages 2--271)E. Bach & H. Partee
Emmon Bach. Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer and.  (pages 2--1)Barbara H. Partee
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.  (pages 2--81)E. Bach E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer & B. H. Partee
On quantifier strength and partitive noun phrases.  (pages 2--145)Ileana Comorovski
Within ten minutes.  (pages 2--59)Maria Bittner
A Note on Quantification and Blankets in Haisla.  (pages 13--20)Emmon Bach
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.  (pages 13)E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kraner & B. H. Partee
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]  (pages 21)E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer & B. H. Partee
On the absence of certain quantifiers in Mohawk.  (pages 21--58)Mark C. Baker
A challenge for compositional semantics.  (pages 59)E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer & B. H. Partee
Quantification in Eskimo: A Challenge for Compositional Semantics.  (pages 59--80)Maria Bittner
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]  (pages 59)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]  (pages 81)E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer & B. H. Partee
A-quantifiers and scope in Mayali.  (pages 207--270)Nick Evans
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]  (pages 207)E. Bach, E. Jelinek, A. Kratzer & B. H. Partee
Towards a typology of natural logic.  (pages 271--319)Leonard M. Faltz
13. on the characterization of the weak-strong distinction1.  (pages 421)Helen De Hoop
Quantificational structures and compositionality.  (pages 541--601)Barbara H. Partee
Bare noun phrases, verbs and quantification in ASL.  (pages 603--618)Karen Petronio
Quantification, events, and gerunds.  (pages 619--659)Paul Portner
Domain restriction in dynamic semantics.  (pages 661--700)Craige Roberts

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Quantification, events, and gerunds.Paul Portner - 1995 - In Emmon W. Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer & Barbara H. Partee (eds.), Quantification in Natural Languages. Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 619--659.
7. quantification in correlatives.Veneeta Dayal - 1995 - In Emmon W. Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer & Barbara H. Partee (eds.), Quantification in Natural Languages. Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 2--179.
15. quantification in straits salish.Eloise Jelinek - 1995 - In Emmon W. Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer & Barbara H. Partee (eds.), Quantification in Natural Languages. Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 2--487.
A Note on Quantification and Blankets in Haisla.Emmon Bach - 1995 - In Emmon W. Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer & Barbara H. Partee (eds.), Quantification in Natural Languages. Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 13--20.
Bare noun phrases, verbs and quantification in ASL.Karen Petronio - 1995 - In Emmon W. Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer & Barbara H. Partee (eds.), Quantification in Natural Languages. Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 603--618.
Towards a typology of natural logic.Leonard M. Faltz - 1995 - In Emmon W. Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer & Barbara H. Partee (eds.), Quantification in Natural Languages. Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 271--319.
A-quantifiers and scope in Mayali.Nick Evans - 1995 - In Emmon W. Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer & Barbara H. Partee (eds.), Quantification in Natural Languages. Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 207--270.

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