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Quantifiers in Natural Language A Survey of Some Recent Work

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After background explanation of the links between generalized quantifier theory and natural language semantics, we survey some recent work on logics with generalized quantifiers, mainly concerned with problems of definability and expressive power in finite models and of axiomatizability, which is relevant to linguistic issues.

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    Dag Westerståhl

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, Poland

    Michał Krynicki

  2. Department of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Poland

    Marcin Mostowski

  3. Siedlce University, Poland

    Lesław W. Szczerba

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Westerståhl, D. (1995). Quantifiers in Natural Language A Survey of Some Recent Work. In: Krynicki, M., Mostowski, M., Szczerba, L.W. (eds) Quantifiers: Logics, Models and Computation. Synthese Library, vol 248. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0522-6_11

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