Two kinds of modified numerals
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Two kinds of modified numerals
In this article, I show that there are two kinds of numeral modifiers: (Class A) those that express the comparison of a certain cardinality with the value expressed by the numeral and (Class B) those that express a bound on a degree property. The goal is, first of all, to provide empirical evidence for this claim and second to account for these data within a framework that treats modified numer...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Pragmatics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1937-8912
DOI: 10.3765/sp.3.3