MR1971367 (2004c:03007) 03A05 03B65

Although grammarians traditionally consider names and quantifier expressions (“something”, “everything”, etc.) as belonging to the noun phrases category, logicians usually treat quantifiers as operators, i.e., as expressions of a different category from the name category. In this brief and valuable paper, logical differences between names and quantifiers are studied on a deductive level while allowing them to be expressions of the same category, e.g., the generalized quantifier category. This means that names and quantifiers can be seen as sharing some syntactic properties while differing in others. The author holds that “the advantage of this approach is that it may lead to a version of a first-order logic which can accommodate a vast class of expressions included between names and quantifiers”.