Issues in the study of floating universal numeric quantifiers

In the Germanic and Romance languages (among others) a universal quantifier can combine with a numeral and form a floating quantifier. I refer to these quantifiers as universal numeric quantifiers or simply ∀NumQ. The following examples from Dutch and Romanian demonstrate this phenomenon: The aim of this article is to show three things: that a ∀NumQ occupies the same position as a bare universal quantifier, namely, the head position of a Quantifier Phrase; that a ∀NumQ must be base-generated in Q° in its entirety and cannot be derived by moving a numeral from a position inside DP up to Q°; that the derivation or rather creation of a ∀NumQ can easily be understood if one combines aspects of the theory of word formation in Di Sciullo and Williams (On the definition of word, MIT Press, 1987) with the theory of the morphology of numerals in Booij (The construction of Dutch numerals, University of Leiden, 2008).