Quantificational variability effect
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Quantifier variability effect (or QVE) is natural language usage that understands and supplies appropriate quantifiers without these being explicit.
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References
External Links
- Lewis, David. 'Adverbs of Quantification'. In Formal Semantics of Natural Language. Edited by Edward L Keenan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pages 3–15.
Literature
- Berman, S. The Semantics of Open Sentences. PhD thesis. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1991.
- Berman, S. 'Situation-Based Semantics for Adverbs of Quantification'. In J. Blevins and Anne Vainikka (eds). University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers 12. Graduate Linguistic Student Association, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1987.