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Quantifiers in Natural Language: Efficient Communication and Degrees of Semantic Universals
Entropy, 2021 While the languages of the world vary greatly, they exhibit systematic patterns, as well. Semantic universals are restrictions on the variation in meaning exhibit cross-linguistically (e.g., that, in all languages, expressions of a certain type can only ...
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
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Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics SocietyThis article explores the morphological composition of Bodo quantifiers. Based on their morphological features, Bodo quantifiers can be broadly categorized into core and morphologically derived complex quantifiers.
Brahma, Sansuma
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On the history of the indefinite pronoun altcineva ‘someone else’. Grammatical observations [PDF]
Diacronia, 2018 Within the present study, we aim to look at the way in which the indefinite pronoun altcineva ‘someone else’ has come to being in Romanian. Its linguistic bearings are mainly discussed from a diachronic perspective, that can help us understand the ...
Adrian Chircu
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From Quantified Self To Quantified Neighborhood
, 2015 Industrial ...
Kun, P. (author), Mulder, I.J. (author)
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The comprehension and production of quantifiers in isiXhosa-speaking Grade 1 learners
South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2016 Background: Quantifiers form part of the discourse-internal linguistic devices that children need to access and produce narratives and other classroom discourse.
Joanine Nel, Frenette Southwood
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The Emergence of Quantifiers [PDF]
, 2012 Human natural languages use quantifiers as ways to designate the number of objects of a set. They include numerals, such as "three", or circumscriptions, such as "a few". The latter are not only underdetermined but also context dependent.
Pauw, S., Hilferty, J., Steels, L.
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Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm of the Pancreas in Children and Adolescents: Expert Recommendations
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm of the pancreas (SPN) is a rare low‐grade malignant exocrine pancreatic tumor, mostly discovered during the second decade of life in females, with a very good prognosis, provided microscopically complete surgical excision is achieved.
Sabine Irtan +18 more
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The chapter focuses on those quantity words that combine with a nominal expression. It distinguishes three main classes: quantifiers proper, quantity adjectives, and semi-lexical quantity nouns.
Anna Cardinaletti, Giuliana Giusti
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Multi-copy quantifiers for single-photon states
Scientific Reports, 2017 Single-photon states are basic resources for hybrid quantum technology with non-Gaussian states of light. Accelerating quantum technology is already able to produce high-quality single-photon states.
Petr Zapletal, Radim Filip
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Discourse variation of vague language: vague quantifiers in spoken and written Lithuanian
Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2018 Vagueness is a controversial issue, which was long stigmatised by both researchers and laypeople and largely neglected in linguistics until the publication of Channell’s (1994) study, which demonstrated that vague language (VL) is a multi-faceted ...
Jūratė Ruzaitė
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