Table Of ContentQUANTIFICATION IN NATURAL LANGUAGES
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Volume 54
Managing Editors
GENNARO CHIERCHIA, University of Milan
PAULINE JACOBSON, Brown University
FRANCIS J. PELLETIER, University of Alberta
Editorial Board
JOHAN V AN BENTHEM, University of Amsterdam
GREGORY N. CARLSON, University of Rochester
DAVID DOWTY, Ohio State University, Columbus
GERALD GAZDAR, University of Sussex, Brighton
IRENE HElM, MlT., Cambridge
EW AN KLEIN, University of Edinburgh
BILL LADUSA W, University of California at Santa Cruz
TERRENCE PARSONS, University of California, Irvine
The titles published in this series are listed at the end afthis volume.
QUANTIFICATION
IN NATURAL
LANGUAGES
Edited by
EMMON BACH
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
ELOISE JELINEK
University of Arizona
ANGELIKA KRATZER
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
BARBARA H. PARTEE
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface vii
Introduction
1. EMMON BACH / A Note on Quantification and Blankets in
Haisla 13
2. MARK BAKER / On the Absence of Certain Quantifiers in
Mohawk 21
3. MARIA BITINER / Quantification in Eskimo: A Challenge for
Compositional Semantics 59
4. MARIA BITTNER and KEN HALE / Remarks on Definiteness
in Warlpiri 81
5. GENNARO CHIERCHIA / The Variability of Impersonal
Subjects 107
6. ILEANA COMOROVSKI / On Quantifier Strength and Partitive
Noun Phrases 145
7. VENEETA DAYAL / Quantification in Correlatives 179
8. NICK EVANS / A-Quantifiers and Scope in Mayali 207
9. LEONARD M. FALTZ / Towards a Typology of Natural Logic 271
10. DAVID GIL / Universal Quantifiers and Distributivity 321
11. MARTIN HASPELMATH / Diachronic Sources of 'All' and
'Every' 363
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12. JAMES HIGGINBOTHAM I Mass and Count Quantifiers 383
13. HELEN DE Hoop / On the Characterization of the Weak-
Strong Distinction 421
14. PAULINE JACOBSON / On the Quantificational Force of
English Free Relatives 451
15. ELOISE JELINEK / Quantification in Straits Salish 487
16. BARBARA H. PARTEE I Quantificational Structures and
Compositionality 541
17. KAREN PETRONIO I Bare Noun Phrases, Verbs and Quan-
tification in ASL 603
18. PAUL PORTNER I Quantification, Events, and Gerunds 619
19. CRAIGE ROBERTS / Domain Restriction in Dynamic
Semantics 661
20. MARCIA DAMASO VIEIRA I The Expression of Quan
tificational Notions in Asurini do Trocara: Evidence against
the Universality of Determiner Quantification 701
Index 721
PREFACE
This volume of papers grew out of a research project on "Cross-Linguistic
Quantification" originated by Emmon Bach, Angelika Kratzer and
Barbara Partee in 1987 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
and supported by National Science Foundation Grant BNS 871999. The
publication also reflects directly or indirectly several other related activ
ities. Bach, Kratzer, and Partee organized a two-evening symposium
on cross-linguistic quantification at the 1988 Annual Meeting of the
Linguistic Society of America in New Orleans (held without financial
support) in order to bring the project to the attention of the linguistic
community and solicit ideas and feedback from colleagues who might
share our concern for developing a broader typological basis for research
in semantics and a better integration of descriptive and theoretical work
in the area of quantification in particular. The same trio organized a
six-week workshop and open lecture series and related one-day confer
ence on the same topic at the 1989 LSA Linguistic Institute at the
University of Arizona in Tucson, supported by a supplementary grant,
NSF grant BNS-8811250, and Partee offered a seminar on the same topic
as part of the Institute course offerings. Eloise Jelinek, who served as
a consultant on the principal grant and was a participant in the LSA
symposium and the Arizona workshops, joined the group of editors for
this volume in 1989. More than half of the papers included in this volume
developed out of contributions originally presented at one or more of
these events, and the reader will see from the cross-references among
many of the papers that there were opportunities for productive inter
change and cross-fertilization of ideas among the participants, particularly
in the longer Arizona workshop. Other contributions were solicited from
colleagues whose work bears directly on the questions we are concerned
with here.
The paper by James Higginbotham, "Mass and Count Quantifiers",
is appearing approximately simultaneously in this book and in Linguistics
and Philosophy 17:5, pp. 447--480, 1994, by agreement with the editor of
that journal and Kluwer Academic Publishers, the publisher of both.
We wish to thank the participants in all of these events and in other
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viii PREFACE
informal interactions, and in related classes and seminars, for their
important contributions. In addition to those participants who have con
tributed their papers to this volume, we particularly want to thank others
whose contributions came in the form of presentations, commentary,
and discussion in the events mentioned above, some of which is reflected
in work published elsewhere but not represented in this volume; their
input has greatly improved the quality of much of the research reported
here and in many cases, as acknowledged in individual papers, has played
an important role in the final forms of papers included here.
Thanks for ideas, valuable feedback, and many kinds of valued assis
tance to all of our former students who served as Research Assistants
on the main research project and on the related workshop and conference
project and students in two related quantification seminars at the
University of Massachusetts; these include Virginia Brennan, Steven
Berman, Kai von Fintel, Molly Diesing, Rose-Marie Dechaine, Veena
Dwivedi, Johannes Jonsson, Noriko Kawasaki, Joyce McDonough, Hotze
Rullmann, Roger Schwarzschild, Alison Taub, Paul Portner, Yutaka Ohoo,
Bill Philip, Janina Rado, Bernhard Rohrbacher, Suzanne Urbanczyk,
Anne Vainikka, Karina Wilkinson, and Alessandro Zucchi; and visitors
to UMass who also made valuable contributions to quantification
seminars: Helen de Hoop, Henriette de Swart, Kozo Iwabe, and Young
Sup Kim.
We are most grateful to the other three consultants on the research
project, David Gil, Maria Bittner, and Ken Hale, who were a major source
of advice, inspiration and good ideas over the course of the project.
Thanks to the participants in the 1988 LSA Symposium on Cross
Linguistic Quantification: besides the four of us, these were Maria Bittner,
Leonard Faltz, David Gil, Polly Jacobson, Dick Oehrle, David Dowty,
Ken Hale, Jerry Sadock, and Greg Stump. Special thanks to the partic
ipants in the seminar, workshop and conference on cross-linguistic
quantification at the LSA Linguistic Institute at the University of Arizona
in the summer of 1989, including Dick Oehrle, Ed Keenan, Tony Kroch,
Kazuhiko Fukushima, Karen Petronio, Nicholas Evans, Sung-Ho Ahn,
Hyunoo Lee, Martin Haspelmath, Laszlo Hunyadi, Maria Bittner, Ken
Hale, David Gil, Leonard Faltz, Polly Jacobson, Paul Portner, Roger
Schwarzschild, Chisato Kitagawa, Michael Hess, Elizabeth Klipple,
Louise McNally, Ton van der Wouden, Rudy Troike, Evelyn Ransom,
Josefina Garcia Fajardo, and Chungmin Lee. And thanks and apologies
to other participants whom we may have forgotten to mention.
PREFACE ix
Neither the work on the preparation of this volume nor the project
which inspired it would have been possible without the financial support
of the National Science Foundation, Grants BNS-871999 and BNS-
8811250. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations
expressed in this material are those of the respective authors and do
not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
We are also indebted for support on various aspects of the project to
the Linguistics Department of the University of Massachusetts, and to
the valuable help of Lynne Ballard, Kathleen Adamczyk, and Melissa
Walsh. The University of Arizona provided essential support for all of
the activities of the 1989 Linguistic Institute, including our workshop,
open lecture series, and one-day conference; thanks to Susan Steele,
Institute Director, for assistance with planning and with arrangements for
workshop participants; thanks to Cari Spring and our team of UMass
Research Assistants for logistical assistance with the one-day confer
ence and ongoing workshop activities.
Thanks to the Linguistic Society of America for providing the settings
in which virtually all of our more "public" activity took place, both the
1988 Annual Meeting where we held our six-hour Symposium and the
1989 Linguistic Institute where we held our workshop, seminar, lecture
series, and one-day conference. Special thanks to Margaret Reynolds
for her indispensable role in the planning for all those events.
Other acknowledgements of indebtedness can be found in the indi
vidual papers in this volume.
And thanks to all of our friends, loved ones, and colleagues (including
to each other) for support, encouragement, and patience through the
long process from the time it was decided that it was a good idea to
try to bring a cross-linguistic perspective to questions of quantification,
into the time when the project got underway and generated a lively
ferment of fruitful hypotheses and discussion, and through the time
from the initial planning for this book in 1989 to its appearance now.
We hope and believe that the work reflected in this book, and related
work by others who have been involved in the project along the way, will
continue to bear fruit in the form of further questions and hypotheses
at the intersection of formal and descriptive semantics and linguistic
typology.
The Editors
