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The relative contributions of frontal and parietal cortex for generalized quantifier comprehension
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Quantifiers, like some or few, are frequent in daily language. Linguists posit at least three distinct classes of quantifiers: cardinal quantifiers that rely on numerosity, majority quantifiers that additionally depend on executive resources, and logical
Christopher A Olm +4 more
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Les quantifieurs nominaux d’origine météorologique ou hydrographique en français et en polonais
Neophilologica, 2018 This article presents the analysis of nouns that act as indicators of large or very large undefined quantity. They have a structure in French DET N1 de and in Polish N1N2 (where N2 is used in genitive case). They are called ‘nominal quantifiers’ and are
Małgorzata Izert
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– “Mi dia due zucchine” / – “Vanno bene 800 grammi?” Quando i numeri non contano
MediAzioni, 2023 The study is devoted to numerical approximations in Russian and Italian, in particular to the so-called “round” numbers, as main vehicles of semantic vagueness.
Marina di Filippo
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Quantifier focus in Serbian [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2022 This paper presents a study on the interpretation of anaphoric reference to preceding quantified expressions in Serbian. Quantifiers not only differ in the proportions they denote but also, depending on their polarity, in their properties of assigning
Aleksandra Lappalainen, Fredrik Heinat
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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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Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 2003 Abstract We study existential and universal quantification over quantifiers, i.e. quantification where the objects quantified over are Lindstrom quantifiers. First we consider the fragment where only existential quantification over quantifiers is allowed, denoted Σ Q 1 .
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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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Learning Unnatural Language Quantifiers [PDF]
, 2022 The fact that all natural language quantifiers are conservative raises the question of whether people could hypothetically learn the conservative quantifiers more easily than the non-conservative ones.
Yet, Barbaros, Aktepe, Semih Can
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