Not only does quantification cover a wide range of areas— both in multiplicity of grammatical and lexical quantification operators and in the variety of phenomena affected by it—but it also still remains the object of many studies across various methodological domains. Our paper, aiming to give an overview of quantification in semantics, focuses both on well studied and less explored quantificational fields, while referring to seminal works as well as to more recent research.
CLIL theme: 3147 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage
ISBN:978-2-8124-3689-5
EAN:9782812436895
ISSN: 2262-0346
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-3689-5.p.0013
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 01-21-2015
Periodicity: Biannual
Language: French
Keyword: existential and universal quantifiers, generalized quantifiers, collective and distributive quantifiers, weak and strong quantification, modifiers of quantifiers, intensification, approximation and accuracy.