There is a myriad of ways we can express quantities in English, but there are just a couple words that are much in dispute. Wait. Should that be "there are myriad ways" and "just a couple of words"?

In the English as in most but not all languages (i.e. Chinese) number can be extracted from the noun leaving a lexical-propositional form of the noun. From book and books we get object predicate: 1.

First note that the quantifier c-commands BOOK. Short C-command of this sort is called government. Government differs from c-command in that a node can be governed by only one governor, where as a ...

The purpose of this project is to investigate the syntax of quantifiers and scope in the languages of the world. To this end, we have created a series of pictures that can be used to elicit scope ...

We can assume that children learn to count starting with one and followed by the lists of numbers in ascending order of cardinality (one, two, three). But besides numbers, in languages there are more ...

We can assume that children learn to count starting with one and followed by the lists of numbers in ascending order of cardinality (one, two, three). But besides numbers, in languages there are more ...