Quantificational strategies across language modalities

Quer, Josep, 1965-

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_9

Quantificational strategies across language modalities

Citation

Quer J. Quantificational strategies across language modalities. In: Aloni M, Kimmelman V, Roelofsen F, Sassoon G, Schulz K, Westera M, editors. Logic, language and meaning. 18th Amsterdam Colloquium; 2011 Dec 19-21; Amsterdam. Berlin: Springer; 2012. p. 82-91. (LNCS, no. 7218). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_9

Abstract

The study of quantification traditionally focused on structures where quantificational meanings are encoded in determiners. Only as a later development attention was paid to quantificational strategies that rely on adverbs, or affixes. In this paper I discuss three varieties of quantificational strategies attested in two sign languages (ASL and LSC) and argue that even the apparent instances of determiner quantification in those languages make use of the more “constructional” way of encoding quantificational meanings that partially reflect the mapping onto tripartite structures overtly. Further, lexical quantification is addressed in the domain of distributivity.