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DECOMPOSING GENERALIZED QUANTIFIERS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2008

DAG WESTERSTÅHL
DAG WESTERSTÅHL*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Gothenburg
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*DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG GOTHENBURG 405 30, SWEDEN E-mail:dag.westerstahl@phil.gu.se
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Abstract

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This note explains the circumstances under which a type 〈1〉 quantifier can be decomposed into a type 〈1, 1〉 quantifier and a set, by fixing the first argument of the former to the latter. The motivation comes from the semantics of Noun Phrases (also called Determiner Phrases) in natural languages, but in this article, I focus on the logical facts. However, my examples are taken among quantifiers appearing in natural languages, and at the end, I sketch two more principled linguistic applications.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , October 2008 , pp. 355 - 371
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2008

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