Decomposing generalized quantifiers

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Authors
  • D. WesterstÃ¥hl
Publication date 2008
Journal Review of Symbolic Logic
Volume | Issue number 1 | 3
Pages (from-to) 355-371
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract This note explains the circumstances under which a type <1> quantifier can be decomposed into a type <1, 1> quantifier and a set, by fixing the first argument of the former to the latter. The motivation comes from the semantics of Noun Phrases (also called Determiner Phrases) in natural languages, but in this article, I focus on the logical facts. However, my examples are taken among quantifiers appearing in natural languages, and at the end, I sketch two more principled linguistic applications.
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755020308080234
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