Comparative quantifiers, such as more than three books, cannot take scope over any quantifier in subject position if they occupy object position. This is clearly different from the behavior of other ...

Quantifiers and intensifiers are adverbs that are used to talk about quantities, amounts or degree. Quantifiers and intensifiers are words such as enough, a lot, a little or very. Adverbs of time are ...

The purpose of this project is to investigate the syntax of quantifiers and scope in the languages of the world. To this end, we have created a series of pictures that can be used to elicit scope ...

We can assume that children learn to count starting with one and followed by the lists of numbers in ascending order of cardinality (one, two, three). But besides numbers, in languages there are more ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper proposes a new analysis of English partitives in which a quantifier is immediately followed by an of-phrase. It has been claimed ...