Language and Information (한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보)
- Volume 2 Issue 1
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- Pages.106-115
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- 1998
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- 1226-7430(pISSN)
Quantificational Determiners and Distributive Predicates
Abstract
It has been suggested in the linguistics literature that quantification and distributivity are closely related phenomena and some linguists claimed that distributivity should be marked on quantifiers(determiners) as well as on predicates. I would challenge the claim that quantificational determiners should be classified in terms of distributivity. I suggest, on the empirical grounds, that distributivity is essentially a phenomenon over(one-place) predicates in a broad sense.
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