This book reimagines the compositional semantics of comparative sentences using words
such as more, as, too, and others. The book's central thesis entails a rejection of a …

The aim of this book is to characterize a notion of type which will cover both linguistic and
non-linguistic action and to lay the foundations for a theory of action based on a theory of …

The words many, much, few, and little (and their cross‐linguistic counterparts) are quite
unusual semantically. They have traditionally been characterized as quantifiers (like every) …

Determining the semantic content of sentences, and uncovering regularities between
linguistic form and meaning, requires attending to both morphological and syntactic …

According to logical theories of meaning, a meaning of an expression can be formalized and
encoded in truth conditions. Vagueness of the language and individual differences between …

This paper proposes a novel, cognitively motivated theory of natural language quantification
and presents experimental evidence for it. Taking into account recent findings from number …

The standard contemporary semantics for 'every'predict the truth of occurrences of
sentences with restrictors that denote the empty set, such as 'Every American king lives in …

This article reports on the results of a broad crosslinguistic study on the semantics of quantity
words such as many in the superlative (eg most). While some languages use such a form to …

Comparatives involve various dimensions for comparison, but not anything goes:" more
coffee" involves volume or weight, but not temperature, while" more coffees" involves …

In this paper, we investigate, by means of a computational model, how individuals map
quantifiers onto numbers and how they order quantifiers on a mental line. We selected five …