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<p>Christian,</p>
<p>Which languages do you have in mind where "numerals have the same
distribution as quantifiers like 'some' or 'many'"?</p>
<p>Within most languages, the class of quantifiers, as defined
semantically, exhibits great internal diversity in terms of
morphosyntactic behaviour. In particular, not only do numerals
behave differently from non-numeral quantifiers, and different
non-numeral quantifiers behave differently from each other, but
also different numerals often behave differently from one another.</p>
<p>Moreover, as Andi suggests, different numerals and/or
non-numerical quantifiers may pattern together with different word
classes. For example, a cross-linguistically recurring pattern is
for lower numerals to be more adjective-like and higher numerals
to be more noun-like.<br>
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<p>David</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/03/2022 13:35, Christian Lehmann
wrote:<br>
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<p>In some languages, numerals have the same distribution as
quantifiers like 'some' or 'many'. From a functional point of
view, too, for instance in view of the approximative numerals
discussed last week, it makes sense to subsume the use of
numerals under quantification. Then one might subdivide the
field of quantification roughly as follows:</p>
<ol>
<li>Numeral quantification: 'one', 'two' ...</li>
<li>Non-numeral quantification</li>
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<li>Universal: 'all', 'every'</li>
<li>Existential: 'some'</li>
<li>Sizing: 'many', 'several', '(a) few', ....</li>
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<p>Two questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Has anything concerning such a classification been published
which I should know?</li>
<li>To the extent that the above is reasonable: Any suggestions
for a better terminology?<br>
</li>
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