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<p>Thank you for your contributions. Just a few remarks:</p>
<p>The web page recommended by Alexandre Rademaker:<br>
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<p>is indeed interesting. Although confined to English, it shows
that most of the items one might consider subsuming under
'quantifier' differ in their distribution; i.o.w., there are
almost as many distribution classes as "quantifiers". Such a
result of a distributional analysis probably depends on the amount
and variety of data that can be obtained for a language. If you
invest a limited amount of energy into the description of a
(minority) language, you probably get fewer distribution classes.</p>
<p>In Cabecar (as in several other languages I am aware of),
indefinite proforms are derived from interrogative proforms by
some morphological or phonological modification. This produces
words meaning 'someone, something, somehow, ...'. Such forms
usually differ from quantifiers s.s. like 'all' and 'many' already
in their morphology, and also often in their distribution. In
Cabecar, too, some indefinite proforms (like 'somewhich') may be
used as determiners, while quantifiers s.s. have the distribution
of adjectives.</p>
<p>It should also be clear that there is, in linguistic structure,
no simple relation between the word class of the quantifying
element and the category of the entity being quantified. In some
languages, 'many', 'several' etc. are verbs. In SAE languages,
quantification relating to a nominal expression (e.g. in subject
position) may be coded by adverbial expressions like <i>unanimously</i>
or German <i>mehrheitlich</i> 'by a majority'. Etc.<br>
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<p>This being said, I confirm that Martin understood my concern: to
reasonably structure (in terms of linguistic semantics) a
(functionally based!) chapter on quantification. Among the many
useful hints I obtained from the discussion, one continues to vex
me: It is true that 'times' may be quantified (e.g. in English <i>sometimes</i>)
similarly to things and persons. Does this mean that there is a
unified <u>linguistic</u> concept of quantification which
includes events/situations (whichever you prefer)? Some of us
subsume notions like 'intensification', 'attenuation', 'partial
completion' etc. under quantification. Are there arguments from
linguistic structure to conclude that this is quantification (of
some kind of entity) in the same sense as <i>some of her children
became professors</i> involves quantification (in the
descriptive tradition of the last two and a half millennia )?<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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