Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives - A Crosslinguistic Analysis of Most

This book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional most and other majority quantifiers across a wide range of languages. The findings have implications for the study of a variety of crucial issues in linguistic theory, including number marking, partitivity, kind reference, and (in)definiteness marking.

List of contents

• General preface


• Acknowledgements


• List of abbreviations


• 1: Introduction


• 2: Distributive most


• 3: Cumulative most


• 4: most in partitives


• 5: Majority quantifiers based on nouns: the largest part, the majority


• 6: Conclusions


• References


• Index

About the author

Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin is an Emeritus CNRS Researcher at the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université de Paris. Her research interests include quantification and plurals, Romanian syntax and semantics, and functional categories in non-finite structures. She has led several joint research projects between the CNRS and the Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy.

Ion Giurgea is a Senior Researcher at the 'Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti' Institute of Linguistics in Bucharest. His main areas of research include the syntax and semantics of noun phrases, comparative Romance clausal syntax, information structure, the diachronic syntax of Romanian, and Romanian etymology. He is one of the coordinators of the new Etymological Dictionary of Romanian, a project run by the Romanian Academy.

Summary

This book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional most and other majority quantifiers across a wide range of languages. The findings have implications for the study of a variety of crucial issues in linguistic theory, including number marking, partitivity, kind reference, and (in)definiteness marking.

Product details

• Authors: Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen (Emeritus Cnrs Researcher Dobrovie-Sorin, Dobrovie-Sorin Carmen, Ion Giurgea
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2021
• EAN: 9780198791249
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879124-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc