Abstract
The Generalized Quantifier Theory, hencefore “GQT”, initiated with Barwise and Cooper (1981) has elicited promising new lines of research and theorizing in semantics, in particular by the investigation of the algebraic properties of natural language quantifiers. Not debating the general relevance of the conceptions developed in GQT, I will try a critical revision of the empirical claims of the theory.
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Loebner, S. (1987). Natural Language and Generalized Quantifier Theory. In: Gärdenfors, P. (eds) Generalized Quantifiers. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3381-1_7
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