ARE QUANTIFIER PHRASES ALWAYS QUANTIFICATIONAL? THE CASE OF ‘EVERY F’

• Authors: Pierre Baumann
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper argues that English quantifier phrases of the form ‘every F’ admit of a literal referential interpretation, contrary to the standard semantic account of this expression, according to which it denotes a set and a second-order relation. Various arguments are offered in favour of the referential interpretation, and two likely objections to it are forestalled.

Keywords

EN

DETERMINERS; QUANTIFIER THEORY; QUANTIFIERS; REFERENCE

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 143 – 172

Contributors

author

Pierre Baumann

• Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, PO Box 21572, San Juan, PR 00931-1572, Puerto Rico