Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume II

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Quantifier Questionnaire

   • Edward L. Keenan

   Pages 1-20

3. Quantification in American Sign Language

   • Natasha Abner, Ronnie B. Wilbur

   Pages 21-59

4. Quantification in Cantonese

   • Peppina Po-lun Lee

   Pages 61-111

5. Chickasaw Quantifiers

   • Pamela Munro

   Pages 113-201

6. Quantifiers in Dan-Gwɛɛtaa (South Mande)

   • Valentin Vydrin

   Pages 203-280

7. Quantification in Gitksan

   • Katie Bicevskis, Henry Davis, Lisa Matthewson

   Pages 281-382

8. Quantification in Hindi

   • Anoop Mahajan

   Pages 383-430

9. Quantification in Kusunda

   • Mark Donohue, Bhojraj Gautam

   Pages 431-451

10. Quantification in Malayalam

    • Pilar Chamorro Fernandez, Lindsey Antonini

    Pages 453-515

11. Quantification in Naxi

    • Paul Law, Qinglian Zhao

    Pages 517-570

12. Quantification in Nen

    • Nicholas Evans

    Pages 571-607

13. Quantification in Nungon

    • Hannah Sarvasy

    Pages 609-663

14. Quantification in Persian

    • Maziar Toosarvandani, Hayedeh Nasser

    Pages 665-696

15. Quantification in Q’anjob’al

    • Kathleen Chase O’Flynn

    Pages 697-750

16. Quantification in Imbabura Quichua

    • Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, Cansada Martin, Pamela Munro, Jos Tellings

    Pages 751-801

17. Quantifiers in Russian Sign Language

    • Vadim Kimmelman

    Pages 803-855

18. Quantifiers in Turkish

    • Deniz Özyıldız

    Pages 857-937

19. Quantifiers in Kenyah Uma Baha

    • Deborah J. M. Wong, Iara Mantenuto

    Pages 939-961

20. Quantification in Warlpiri

    • Margit Bowler

    Pages 963-994

This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families and typological profiles. The current volume pays special attention to underrepresented languages of different status and endangerment level. Languages covered include American and Russian Sign Languages, and sixteen spoken languages from Africa, Australia, Papua, the Americas, and different parts of Asia.  The articles respond to a questionnaire the editors constructed to enable detailed crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features. They offer comparable information on semantic classes of quantifiers (generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, partitive), syntactically complex quantifiers (intensive modification, Boolean compounds, exception phrases, etc.), and several more specific issues such as quantifier scope ambiguities, floating quantifiers, and binary (type 2) quantifiers.  The book is intended for semanticists, logicians interested in quantification in natural language, and general linguists as articles are meant to be descriptive and theory independent.  The book continues and expands the coverage of the Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language (2012) by the same editors, and extends the earlier work in Matthewson (2008), Gil et al. (2013) and Bach et al (1995).

• Binary quantifiers
• Boolean compounds
• Cross-linguistic comparison of quantifiers
• Exception phrases
• Existential/universal/proportional quantifiers
• Floating quantifiers
• Quantification in natural languages
• Quantificational expressions in languages
• Quantified possessors
• Quantifiers in American sign language
• Quantifiers in Bamana
• Quantifiers in Georgian
• Quantifiers in Russian sign language
• Semantic analysis of quantifiers
• Syntactically complex quantifiers

• LORIA (UMR 7503), CNRS, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

  Denis Paperno

• Dept. of Linguistics 3125 Campbell Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

  Edward L. Keenan

Denis Paperno is a postdoctoral scholar in the Language, Interaction and Computation Laboratory at the University of Trento. He received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2012 for a thesis on The Syntax and the Semantics of Non Standard Coordination. His interests include various areas of linguistics, including field linguistics, formal semantics, and computational linguistics. He has published a descriptive grammar of the Beng language (Mande; Côte d'Ivoire).


Edward L. Keenan is Distinguished Professor of linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He received his PhD in Formal Linguistics from The University of Pennsylvania in 1969 for a thesis on A Presupposition Logic for Natural Language. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published in numerous areas oflinguistics, including syntactic typology, formal semantics, theoretical syntax, historical syntax, and Austronesian linguistics. He has coauthored two books: Boolean Semantics for Natural Language (1985), with Leonard Faltz, and Bare Grammar: Lectures on Linguistic Invariants, with Edward P. Stabler (2003). In 2015 he was awarded the S.-Y. Kuroda prize Mathematics of Language.

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