Quantification in Nungon

Hannah Sarvasy*

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    Abstract

    After presenting some basic genetic, historical and typological information about Nungon, this chapter outlines the quantification patterns it expresses. It illustrates various semantic types of quantifiers, such as generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, definite and partitive which are defined in the Quantifier Questionnaire in chapter “The Quantifier Questionnaire”. It partitions the expression of the semantic types into morpho-syntactic classes: Adverbial type quantifiers and Nominal (or Determiner) type quantifiers. For the various semantic and morpho-syntactic types of quantifiers it also distinguishes syntactically simple and syntactically complex quantifiers, as well as issues of distributivity and scope interaction, classifiers and measure expressions, and existential constructions. The chapter describes structural properties of determiners and quantified noun phrases in Nungon, both in terms of internal structure (morphological or syntactic) and distribution.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationStudies in Linguistics and Philosophy
    PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media B.V.
    Pages609-663
    Number of pages55
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017

    Publication series

    NameStudies in Linguistics and Philosophy
    Volume97
    ISSN (Print)0924-4662
    ISSN (Electronic)2215-034X

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