Two kinds of modified numerals
By Rick Nouwen. 2010
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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 numerals as degree quantifiers.
Subfields: Computational Theory and Mathematics, Mathematical Physics
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Citations in the corpus
- The grammar of standards: Judge-dependence, purpose-relativity, and comparison classes in degree constructions (2014, background): “In particular, Nouwen (2010) argues for precisely the same mechanism in sentences with modified numerals such as at least 10 that require a range of values as its input.”
- A "de-Fregean" semantics (and neo-Gricean pragmatics) for modified and unmodified numerals (2015, methodology): “…and semantic constituents that saturate a quantity position inside the nominal projection and can take scope independently of the nominal with which they compose on the surface (see e.g. Hackl 2000, Heim 2000, Takahashi 2006, Nouwen 2008b, Kennedy & Stanley 2009, Nouwen 2010, Kennedy 2013).”