Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax
- Cambridge Handbooks In Language And Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Comparative Syntactic Enterprise
- Part I Comparative Syntax: Theory, Methodology, and Data Collection
- Part II Comparative Syntax: Building Blocks and Combinatorial Properties
- Part III Comparative Syntax: Dependency Relations and Dependency Marking
- 19 Agreement and Concord
- 20 Head Dependencies
- 21 A-dependencies
- 22 Anaphoric Dependencies
- 23 The Comparative Syntax of Nominal Quantifiers
- 24 Ā-dependencies and Successive Cyclic Movement
- 25 From Interrogatives to Relatives
- Part IV Comparative Syntax: Interfaces
- Index
- References
23 - The Comparative Syntax of Nominal Quantifiers
from Part III - Comparative Syntax: Dependency Relations and Dependency Marking
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax
- Cambridge Handbooks In Language And Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Comparative Syntactic Enterprise
- Part I Comparative Syntax: Theory, Methodology, and Data Collection
- Part II Comparative Syntax: Building Blocks and Combinatorial Properties
- Part III Comparative Syntax: Dependency Relations and Dependency Marking
- 19 Agreement and Concord
- 20 Head Dependencies
- 21 A-dependencies
- 22 Anaphoric Dependencies
- 23 The Comparative Syntax of Nominal Quantifiers
- 24 Ā-dependencies and Successive Cyclic Movement
- 25 From Interrogatives to Relatives
- Part IV Comparative Syntax: Interfaces
- Index
- References
Summary
All languages express quantification somehow, but the syntactic means by which it is expressed can vary dramatically from one language to another. This chapter presents a general description of the different syntactic realizations of quantifiers as determiners (D-quantifiers), adverbial elements (A-quantifiers), or predicates, as well as different realizations within each type across languages and broad generalizations about the types of quantifiers which fall into each of the categories. While it has been suggested in previous work that not all languages have D-quantifiers, this chapter critically re-examines this conclusion. In addition, syntactic differences in the realization of quantifier float in different languages is brought to bear on the D- vs. A-quantifier distinction.
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