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Quantificational Modification - The Semantics of Totality and Proportionality (Paperback)
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Quantificational Modification - The Semantics of Totality and Proportionality (Paperback)
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The thesis explores the syntactic and semantic dimensions of four
linguistic elements that appear in Modern Greek arguably as
quantifiers and modifiers, i.e., in the form of Quantificational
Modifiers (QMods) olos 'all, whole, overall' and its extension
olikos 'total', merikos 'some, a few, partial', ligos 'some, few,
little, insignificant' and polis 'many, great, considerable'. Such
QMods are analyzed as 'measure' quantifiers of scalar semantics
that appear in a syntactic position common to adjectival modifiers.
The thesis explores specific sets of reading and their
interpretations. Such a phenomenon is common to Modern Greek,
English, French and Arabic QMods and gives evidence to the
universality of Quantificational Modification.Chapter 1 discusses
Quantification as semantic interpretation along with the main
questions this research intends to answer, while Chapter 2 reviews
recent literature on Quantification within and across languages.
Chapter 3 focuses on Modern Greek expressions of Quantification and
extends chapter 2 into a further discussion about the various
syntactic manifestations. Chapters 4 and 5 are extensions to
chapters 2 and 3 as they discuss the semantics of specific QMods as
'total' and 'partial' quantifiers, which operate on homomorphic
sets of degrees and amounts.Chapter 6 discusses the broader issues
in the thesis from a theoretical and typological perspective that
establishes Quantificational Modification as a universal and purely
semantic subclass of Quantification. Our findings are summarized in
chapter 7, followed by suggestions for expanding our investigation
into other related areas.
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