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On the grammar and processing of proportional quantifiers: most versus more than half
2009
Natural Language Semantics
Proportional quantifiers have played a central role in the development of formal semantics because they set a bench mark for the expressive power needed to describe quantification in natural language (Barwise&Cooper 1981). 'Most,' in particular, supplied the initial motivation for adopting Generalized Quantifier Theory because its meaning is definable as relation between sets of individuals, which are taken to be semantic primitives Generalized Quantifier Theory. This paper proposes an
doi:10.1007/s11050-008-9039-x
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