The semantics of cardinal versus enumerative existential constructions

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 203-250

  Davidse, Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

existential construction; instantiation; quantication; syntactic description; typespecification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961601379     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2000.001     Document Type: Article

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