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Quantifier
(3,207 words)
1. What is a Quantifier? This entry surveys quantifiers in Arabic and classifies them according to their morphosyntactic behavior. Quantifiers are terms that express quantificational relations between sets, where sets are expressed by predicates, e.g. noun phrases and verb phrases. For example, the quantifier
most in (1) expresses a relation between
Egyptians (a noun phrase (NP) denoting the set of Egyptians) and
love Umm Kulthoum (a verb phrase (VP) denoting the set of individuals who love Umm Kulthoum). (1)
Most Egyptians love Umm Kulthoum The relation that
most expresses is tru…
Date:
2020-08-01
Interface Linguistics
(4,820 words)
Grammar is modularized, as evidenced by the fact that distinct types of grammatical processes impose their effects autonomously, unaware of the contributions of other types of processes. Generalizations of the form ‘subjects precede verbs’ have no counterparts of the form ‘terms containing the phoneme /p/ precede verbs’. Nor do generalizations such as ‘stops become voiced intervocalically’ have counterparts of the form ‘stops become voiced in subjects’. This division of labor is nonetheless the …
Date:
2018-10-26
