1. Bare Quantifiers?
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Ben ‐ Yami, Hanoch
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QUANTIFIERS (Linguistics) , *FORMAL language semantics , *LANGUAGE & languages , *PLURALITY of worlds in literature , *NOUN phrases (Grammar) - Abstract
In a series of publications I have claimed that by contrast to standard formal languages, quantifiers in natural language combine with a general term to form a quantified argument, in which the general term's role is to determine the domain or plurality over which the quantifier ranges. In a recent paper Zoltán Gendler Szabó tried to provide a counterexample to this analysis and derived from it various conclusions concerning quantification in natural language, claiming it is often 'bare'. I show that Szabó's example fails, and that even if it were successful his conclusions would not be supported by it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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