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Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives - A Crosslinguistic Analysis of Most (Hardcover)
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Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives - A Crosslinguistic Analysis of Most (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 77
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This book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional
most and other majority quantifiers across languages. Carmen
Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea draw on data from around 40
languages to demonstrate the existence of two distinct semantic
types of most: a distributive type, which compares cardinalities of
sets of atoms, and a cumulative type, which involves measuring
plural and mass entities with respect to a whole. On the syntactic
side, the most significant difference is between partitive and
non-partitive configurations: certain majority quantifiers are
specific to partitive constructions, while others are also allowed
in non-partitives. The volume also explores complex expressions of
the type the largest part and nominal quantifiers of the type the
majority. The authors argue in favour of a quantificational
analysis of most, in contrast to many recent studies, but adopt a
bipartition-cum-superlative analysis for the largest part. The
volume is a large-scale crosslinguistic investigation, offering
typological insights as well as case studies from a range of
languages, including German, Romanian, Hungarian, Hindi, and Syrian
Arabic. The findings have implications for the study of number
marking, partitivity, kind reference, (in)definiteness marking, and
other crucial issues in linguistic theory.
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