<P>The database industry is a multi-billion, world-wide, all-encompassing part of the software world. <STRONG>Quantifiers in Action: Generalized Quantification in Query, Logical and Natural Languages introduces a query language called GQsβGeneralized Quantification in Query. Most query languages ar
Generalized Quantifiers in Natural Language
β Scribed by Alice ter Meulen (editor); Johan van Benthem (editor)
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Mouton
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 180
- Series
- Groningen-Amsterdam Studies in Semantics; 4
- Edition
- Reprint 2013
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Preface
Generalized Quantifiers and Traditional Logic
Generalized Quantifiers: the Properness of their Strength
Determiners and Context Sets
Generalized Quantifiers and the Expressive Power of Natural Language
Counting Quantifiers
Generalized Quantifiers: Finite versus Infinite
Themes from a Workshop
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<p><p>Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors. Focusing on the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions, the book explores 17 languages i
<p><p>Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors. Focusing on the formation, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions, the book explores 17 languages i