Quantification in Eskimo: A Challenge for Compositional Semantics

In Emmon W. Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer & Barbara H. Partee, Quantification in Natural Languages. Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 59--80 (1995)
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This paper describes quantificational structures in Greenlandic Eskimo (Kalaallisut), a language where familiar quantificational meanings are expressed in ways that are quite different from English. Evidence from this language thus poses some formidable challenges for cross-linguistic theories of compositional semantics.

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