The Semantics of Special Quantifiers in Predicate Position
The Semantics of Special Quantifiers in Predicate Position
English contains “special” quantifiers that can take the position of various sorts of non-referential complements, namely quantifiers like something, everything, or several things. This chapter focuses on the semantics of special quantifiers in the position of predicatives. It argues that special quantifiers in such positions are neither substitutional nor do they quantify over abstract meanings. Rather they are nominalizing quantifiers ranging over the sorts of things the nominalization of a predicate would stand for, namely tropes or kinds of tropes. The chapter will also give an analysis of special noun phrases such as that size.
Keywords: predicates, quantification, second-order logic, type theory, tropes, nominalizations
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