Comparative Concept: quantifier term (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
quantifier term (cxn)
Typ | construction |
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Alias(se) | quantifier term |
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Definition
forms that describe the quantity of the instances of a type, where the precise cardinality of the set is not specified. Quantifiers include vague numerals, amount terms, proportional quantifiers, and distributive quantifiers. (Section 4.1.3)