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The syntactic status of quantifiers in Somali1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

John I. Saeed
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The study of quantifiers is an important area of language description. This is in part because their description has proved relevant to an issue of great theoretical interest, the relation between syntax and semantics. One question of interest is how far the unity of their semantic function is reflected in their syntactic behaviour. This raises questions like, is there a syntactic category ‘quantifier’ or ‘quantifier phrase (QP)’?

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , October 1982 , pp. 525 - 545
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1982

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