Abstract Control Structures And The Semantics Of Quantifiers
@inproceedings{Cushing1983AbstractCS, title={Abstract Control Structures And The Semantics Of Quantifiers}, author={S. Cushing}, booktitle={EACL}, year={1983} }
Intuitively, a quantifier is any word or phrase that expresses a meaning that answers one of the questions "How many?" or "How much?" Typical English examples include all, no, many, few, some but not many, all but at most a very few, wherever, whoever, whoever there is, and also, it can be arguesd, only (Keenan, 1971), also (Cushing, 1978b), and the (Chomsky, 1977), In this paper we review an empirically motivated analysis of such meanings (Cushing, 1976; 1982a) and draw out its computational… CONTINUE READING
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