Abstract
This paper analyzes the syntax and compositional semantics of scalar modifiers of quantifier phrases in expressions like almost every student, absolutely every student and nowhere near every student. The semantics is based on scales (positive and negative) of generalized quantifiers.
Publisher
Open Library of the Humanities
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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