Singular quantified terms
- In this paper, I discuss the behavior of singular partitives, focusing on Hebrew. I show that group noun-headed singular quantified terms behave essentially different from other singular quantified terms. Specifically, the domain of quantification in the former is a discrete set (the members of the group), while in the latter the domain of quantification is a set of mass entities. I propose a preliminary analysis of singular quantified terms in Hebrew, respecting the properties peculiar to this language as well as the observations about group vs. non-group singular quantified terms. This analysis is based on a novel class of quantifiers I name ’Measure Quantifiers’, which instantiate relations between algebraic sums. Using shifts between algebraic sums, we can represent the different readings of singular and plural individual or group terms.
Author details: | Omer Korat |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-92313 |
Title of parent work (English): | Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2 |
Editor(s): | Mira Grubic, Anne Mucha |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2016 |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2016/06/23 |
First page: | 36 |
Last Page: | 51 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Sammelwerke (nicht fortlaufend) / Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2 / Beiträge |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |