This extended collection of papers is the result of putting recent ideas on quantification to work on a wide variety of languages. A central perspective of many

Covering a strikingly diverse range of languages from 12 linguistic families, this handbook is based on responses to a questionnaire constructed by the editors.

Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy. Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we ref

Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification st

The goal of this book is to explore the relationship between the cognitive notion of parthood and various grammatical devices expressing this concept in natural