Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume II (eBook)

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 of linguistics, 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.

Introduction by Edward L. Keenan, D. Paperno.- The Quantifier Questionnaire by Edward L. Keenan.- Quantification in American Sign Language by Natasha Abner, Ronnie Wilbur.- Quantification in Cantonese by Peppina Lee.- Chicasaw Quantifiers by Pamela Munro.- Quantifiers in Dan-Gwɛɛtaa (South Mande) by Valentin Vydrine.- Quantification in Gitksan by Katie Bicevskis, Henry Davis, Lisa Matthewson.- Quantification in Hindi by Anoop Mahajan.- Quantification in Kusunda by Mark Donohue, Bhoj Raj Gautam.- Quantification in Malayalam by Pilar Chamorro Fernandez and Lindsey Antonini.- Quantification in Naxi by Paul Law and Qingliang Zhao.- Quantification in Nen by Nick Evans.- Quantification in Nungon by Hannah Sarvasy.- Quantification in Persian by Maziar Toosarvandani and Hayedeh Nasser.- Quantification in Q'anjob'al by Kathleen Chase O'Flynn.- Quantification in Imbabura Quichua by Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, Cansada Martin, Pamela Munro, and Jos Tellings.- Quantifiers in Russian Sign Language by Vadim Kimmelman.- Quantifiers in Turkish by Deniz Ozyıldız.- Quantification in Kenyah Uma Baha by Deborah J.M. Wong and Iara Mantenuto.- Quantification in Warlpiri by Margit Bowler.- Overview by Edward L. Keenan, D. Paperno