Majority quantification and quantity superlatives : a crosslinguistic analysis of most /

"This book is a study of the syntax and semantics of proportional Most and other majority quantifiers across languages. Based on data drawn from around forty languages, this book reveals the existence of two semantic types of Most: a distributive type, which compares cardinalities of sets of at...

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Main Authors:	Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen, 1952- (Author), Giurgea, Ion, 1976- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 77.
Subjects:	Grammar, Comparative and general > Quantifiers. English language > Quantifiers. Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax. Quantificateurs (Linguistique) Syntaxe. Morphology. Linguistics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES. Semantics. English language > Quantifiers Grammar, Comparative and general > Quantifiers Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax Electronic books.
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