Comparative Concept: distributive quantifier term (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
distributive quantifier term (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
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| Alias(se) | distributive quantifier term |
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a form that specifies the members of the set but treats them individually (that is, the predicate applies to the whole set by virtue of applying to the individual members of the set). Example: in Every dog has fleas, every is a distributive quantifier. (Section 4.1.3)