Chapter 3: The Semantics of Special Quantifiers in Predicate Position

In Abstract Objects and the semantics of Natural Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013)
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Abstract

This chapter argues that special quantifiers such as 'something' when occurring in argument position are not ordinary or substitutional quantifiers; rather they have a reifying force introducing a domain of tropes or kinds of tropes to quantify over.

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Friederike Moltmann
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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