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‘Some’-related indefinite quantifying language elements in Osage

1. September 20154. September 2015 s.

hépe ADJ, N ‘a small amount, ca. half a container; piece, part, some, a bit’ tóa ADJ, PRON ‘any’ / ‘some’ / marker of the head in a relative clause hó᷈õpa wĩ ‘some day, some[…]

Posted in Osage, Quantifiers Tags quantifiers, semantics
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The indefinite quantifier ‘some’ and related elements in Lakhota

31. August 20154. September 2015 s.

Quantifiers (all, some, many, none, every, etc.) play an essential role in semantics. In Chomskyan Universal Grammar theory quantifiers are considered archetypical language elements the notion of which is hard-wired into the brain and thus[…]

Posted in Lakhota (Teton), Osage, Quantifiers Tags Chomsky, cross-linguistic, quantifiers, semantics, universal grammar
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