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The study of quantificational expressions is one of the central domains in the field of natural language semantics. Probably every language has means of expressing quantification, but quantifiers in natural languages are straightforwardly parallel to logical quantifiers. Based on the previous resear...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-764552024-03-28T09:47:52Z Chapter 19 Quantification Kimmelman, Vadim Quer, Josep Experimental, handbook, language, phonological, research, sign, theoretical, comprehension, conventions, interrogatives, The study of quantificational expressions is one of the central domains in the field of natural language semantics. Probably every language has means of expressing quantification, but quantifiers in natural languages are straightforwardly parallel to logical quantifiers. Based on the previous research on quantification in sign languages, we further discuss the following issues: lexical quantifiers, quantificational morphology, and structural aspects of quantification. The idea behind A-quantification stems from the analysis of indefinites by Kamp and Heim, according to which indefinite expressions are non-quantificational, and they just introduce a variable with descriptive content that must be unselectively bound by a quantifier. In opposition to D-quantification, Bach et al. group other ways of encoding quantification under the label A-quantification, which includes adverbs, auxiliaries, affixes, and argument-structure adjusters. A large variety of verbal modifiers that express different types of distributive semantics has been found in RSL by Filimonova. 2023-09-27T12:44:40Z 2023-09-27T12:44:40Z 2021 chapter 9781138801998 9780367640996 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76455 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781315754499_10.4324_9781315754499-19.pdf Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research Routledge 10.4324/9781315754499-19 10.4324/9781315754499-19 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 3f085e74-5c1f-431c-932e-b2c6d6a41db3 8ece0728-d36b-453a-b443-5923b97c04c3 9781138801998 9780367640996 Routledge 18 Universitat Pompeu Fabra Pompeu Fabra University open access
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description The study of quantificational expressions is one of the central domains in the field of natural language semantics. Probably every language has means of expressing quantification, but quantifiers in natural languages are straightforwardly parallel to logical quantifiers. Based on the previous research on quantification in sign languages, we further discuss the following issues: lexical quantifiers, quantificational morphology, and structural aspects of quantification. The idea behind A-quantification stems from the analysis of indefinites by Kamp and Heim, according to which indefinite expressions are non-quantificational, and they just introduce a variable with descriptive content that must be unselectively bound by a quantifier. In opposition to D-quantification, Bach et al. group other ways of encoding quantification under the label A-quantification, which includes adverbs, auxiliaries, affixes, and argument-structure adjusters. A large variety of verbal modifiers that express different types of distributive semantics has been found in RSL by Filimonova.
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