Comparative Concept: proportional quantifier term (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
proportional quantifier term (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
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| Alias(se) | proportional quantifier term |
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a form that specifies the set of instances as a proportion of the whole set of individuals/tokens of the type, or at least the contextually relevant whole set. Example: in few children, few is a proportional quantifier indicating a lesser proportion of the contextually relevant set of children. (Section 4.1.3)