‘Almost people’: A Learner Corpus Account of L2 Use and Misuse of Non-numerical Quantification
Open Linguistics, 2016 We present an Integrated Contrastive Model of non-numerical quantificational NPs (NNQs, i.e. ‘some people’) produced by L1 English speakers and Mandarin and Korean L2 English learners. Learner corpus data was sourced from the ICNALE (Ishikawa, 2011, 2013)
Crosthwaite Peter +2 more
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Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Meaning of Quantifiers: Implications for Pragmatic Enrichment
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 One of the most studied scales in the literature on scalar implicatures is the quantifier scale. While the truth of some is entailed by the truth of all, some is felicitous only when all is false.
Penka Stateva +5 more
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Variable types for meaning assembly: a logical syntax for generic noun phrases introduced by most [PDF]
, 2012 This paper proposes a way to compute the meanings associated with sentences with generic noun phrases corresponding to the generalized quantifier most. We call these generics specimens and they resemble stereotypes or prototypes in lexical semantics. The
Retoré, Christian
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Neutrosophic Linguistic valued Hypersoft Set with Application: Medical Diagnosis and Treatment [PDF]
Neutrosophic Sets and SystemsLanguage is closely connected to the concepts of uncertainty and indeterminacy, as it functions as a fundamental tool for the expression and communication of information.
Muhammad Saqlain +2 more
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'Religion' in Late Antique Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism: Developing a Term in Counterpoint
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2020 This article evaluates the development of a generic term for ‘religion’ in late antique Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism. It examines linguistic indications of the use of dēn/δēn as a generic term in the Manichaean Middle Iranian corpora, i.e.
Kianoosh Rezania
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Emerging Heterogeneities in Italian Customs and Comparison with Nearby Countries. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In this work we apply techniques and modus operandi typical of Statistical Mechanics to a large dataset about key social quantifiers and compare the resulting behaviors of five European nations, namely France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland.
Elena Agliari +5 more
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“Few” or “Many”? An Adaptation Level Theory Account for Flexibility in Quantifier Processing
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Quantifiers (e.g., “many,” “some,” “at least seven,” “more than half”) are words characterizing amounts or numerosities by reference to an internal threshold, or degree.
Stefan Heim +4 more
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Linguistic quantifiers based on Choquet integrals
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2008 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Cui, Licong, Li, Yongming
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, 2020 The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates to philosophical and ...
Moltmann, Friederike
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Morphosyntactic features of universal quantifiers in isiZulu and Xitsonga: A comparative study
LiteratorDue to their common roots within the Bantu language family, isiZulu and Xitsonga exhibit several shared linguistic features, notably the use of a noun class system. Yet, their distinct morphological rules differentiate them.
Rivalani X. Masonto, Elliot M. Mncwango
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