Gneralised Quantifier Restrictions on the Arguments of the Polish Distributive Preposition po Cover Image

Gneralised Quantifier Restrictions on the Arguments of the Polish Distributive Preposition po
Gneralised Quantifier Restrictions on the Arguments of the Polish Distributive Preposition po

Author(s): Adam Przepiórkowski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Summary/Abstract: It has been shown that English existential there contexts like There are some / two / many / no / *most / *all students in the class only allow determiners expressing a certain well-defined subclass of generalised quantifiers (Keenan 1987, 2003). In this paper we show that the Polish distributive preposition po imposes a stronger constraint, namely, requires that its argument express a cardinal quantifier.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 159-177
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English