Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives: A Crosslinguistic Analysis of Most Dobrovie-Sorin Carmen
Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives: A Crosslinguistic Analysis of Most Dobrovie-Sorin Carmen This book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional most and other majority…
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Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives: A Crosslinguistic Analysis of Most Dobrovie-Sorin Carmen
This book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional most and other majority quantifiers across languages. On the syntactic side, the most significant difference is between partitive and non-partitive configurations: certain majority quantifiers are specific to partitive constructions, while others are also allowed in non-partitives. Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Giurgea draw on data from around 40 languages to demonstrate the existence of two distinct semantic types of most: a distributive type, which compares cardinalities of sets of atoms, and a cumulative type, which involves measuring plural and mass entities with respect to a whole.
The authors argue in favour of a quantificational analysis of most, in The volume also explores complex expressions of the type the largest part and nominal quantifiers of the type the majority.
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