Quantification in Natural Languages
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1. A Note on Qualification and Blankets in Haisla.- 2. On the Absence of Certain Quantifiers in Mohawk.- 3. Quantification in Eskimo: A Challenge for Compositional Semantics.- 4. Remarks on Definiteness in Wartlpiri.- 5. The Variability of Impersonal Subjects.- 6. On Quantifier Strength and Partitive Noun Phrases.- 7. Quantification in Correlatives.- 8. A-Quantifier and Scope in Mayali.- 9. Towards a Typology of Natural Logic.- 10. Universal Quantifiers and Distributivity.- 12. Diachronic Sources ‘All’ and ‘Every’.- 12. Mass and Count Quantifiers.- 13. On the Characterization of the Weak-Strong Distinction.- 14. On the Quantificational Force of English Free Relatives.- 15. Quantification in Straits Salish.- 16. Quantificational Structures and Compositionality.- 17. Bare Noun Phrases, Verbs and Quantification in ASL.- 18. Quantification, Events, and Gerunds.- 19. Domain Restriction in Dynamic Semantics.- 20. The Expression of Quantificational Notions in Asurini do Trocará: Evidence against the Universality of Determiner Quantification.

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`We recommend unreservedly its careful and patient study to anyone with the slightest interest in the empirical facts and/or (their implications for) the formal properties of quantification.'
Linguistics, 34 (1996)

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