About Meanings As a Rule Not Included in Dictionaries
About Meanings As a Rule Not Included in Dictionaries
Author(s): Violetta Koseska-Toszewa, Maksim DuszkinSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Quantification; quantifier; existentiality; universality; uniqueness; strong and weak quantificational meaning; verbal group; semantic structure of the sentence; state; event
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the problem of ambiguity of the exponents of logical existential quantification occurring in the verbal group of Bulgarian, Polish and Russian sentences: Bulg. отвреме навреме, понякога, Pol. od czasu do czasu, czasem, czasami, Rus. время от времени, иногда. This ambiguity can be explained by strong and weak existential quantification. Lexical semantics did not distinguish between these two types of existentiality. Here we present a description of selected exponents of logical existential quantification in Bulgarian, Polish and Russian.
Journal: Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 51-56
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English