GENERALISED QUANTIFIER RESTRICTIONS ON THE ARGUMENTS OF THE POLISH DISTRIBUTIVE PREPOSITION 'PO'

• Authors: Przepiorkowski Adam
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

It has been shown that English existential 'there' contexts like 'There are some / two / many / no / *most / *all students in the class' only allow determiners expressing a certain well-defined subclass of generalised quantifiers (Keenan 1987, 2003). In this paper the author shows that the Polish distributive preposition 'po' imposes a stronger constraint, namely, requires that its argument express a cardinal quantifier.

Keywords

EN

DISTRIBUTIVE PREPOSITION 'PO' (POLISH)

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Cognitive Studies
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 159-177
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Przepiorkowski Adam

• Adam Przepiorkowski, Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN, ul. J. Ordona 21, 01-237 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA053817