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Quantifier (linguistics)
About: Quantifier (linguistics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1176 publications have been published within this topic receiving 21166 citations. The topic is also known as: quantifiers.
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1 Jan 1998
TL;DR: This chapter discusses truth-conditional Semantics and the Fregean Program, and first steps towards an Intensional Semantics.
Abstract: Preface. 1. Truth-conditional Semantics and the Fregean Program. 2. Executing the Fregean Program. 3. Semantics and Syntax. 4. More of English: Non-verbal Predicates, Modifiers, Definite Descriptions. 5. Relative Clauses, Variables, Variable Binding. 6. Quantifiers: Their Semantic Type. 7. Quantification and Grammar. 8. Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on Quantifier Movement. 9. Bound and Referential Pronouns and Ellipsis. 10. Syntactic and Semantic Binding. 11. E-Type Anaphora. 12. First Steps Towards an Intensional Semantics. Index.
2,428 citations
TL;DR: An extension of the OWA operators which involves the use of triangular norms is introduced and a procedure for determining the measure of “orness” directly from the quantifier is suggested.
Abstract: We consider multicriteria aggregation problems where, rather than requiring all the criteria be satisfied, we need only satisfy some portion of the criteria. The proportion of the critera required is specified in terms of a linguistic quantifier such as most. We use a fuzzy set representation of these linguistic quantifiers to obtain decision functions in the form of OWA aggregations. A methodology is suggested for including importances associated with the individual criteria. A procedure for determining the measure of “orness” directly from the quantifier is suggested. We introduce an extension of the OWA operators which involves the use of triangular norms. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
1,178 citations
TL;DR: This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the space of possible analyses of the phenomenon of quantifier domain restriction, together with a set of considerations which militate against all but the own proposal.
Abstract: In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of the space of possible analyses of the phenomenon of quantifier domain restriction, together with a set of considerations which militate against all but our own proposal. Among the many accounts we consider and reject are the 'explicit' approach to quantifier domain restric- tion discussed, for example, by Stephen Neale, and the pragmatic approach to quantifier domain restriction proposed by Kent Bach. Our hope is that the exhaustive discussion of this special case of context-dependence will provide guidelines for how to decide, for an arbitrary case of context-dependent discourse, whether it should be treated syn- tactically, semantically, or pragmatically.
936 citations
28 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The adverbs I wish to consider fall into six groups of near-synonyms, as follows: Always, invariably, universally, without exception Sometimes, occasionally, [once] Never Usually, mostly, generally, almost always, with few exceptions Often, frequently, commonly Seldom, infrequently, rarely, almost never.
Abstract: It may seem plausible, especially if we stop with the first word on each list, that these adverbs function as quantifiers over, times. That is to say that always, for instance, is a modifier that combines with a sentence cD to make a sentence Always II> that is true iff the modified sentence ct> is true at all times. Likewise, we might guess that Sometimes cD, Never , Usually (Il, Often 11>, and Seldom are true, respectively, iff «I> is true at some times, none, most, many, or few. But it is easy to find various reasons why this first guess is too simple. First, we may note that the times quantified over need not be moments of time. They can be suitable stretches of time instead. For instance,
890 citations
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| 2021 | 54 |