The landscape of universal quantification in Old Hungarian

Autor:	Ágnes Bende-Farkas
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Pronoun media_common.quotation_subject Class (philosophy) Raising (linguistics) Language and Linguistics Linguistics Universal quantification Universal quantifier Reading (process) Indeterminate Scope (computer science) media_common Mathematics
Zdroj:	Acta Linguistica Hungarica. 62:223-261
ISSN:	1588-2624 1216-8076
DOI:	10.1556/064.2015.62.3.1
Popis:	This paper presents the system of Old Hungarian expressions conveying universal or maximal readings, as found in Old Hungarian codices. The main empirical findigs are that (i) the OH suffix-keed could be a (temporal) universal quantifier. Expressions with such suffixes can help reconstruct quantifiers from the head-final stage of Hungarian. (ii) Old Hungarian had bare pronouns that acquired a bound, quantificational reading from long-distance operators. Against such a background, minden is claimed to be a quintessential strong D-quantifier: It could undergo raising, and its scope was flexible (within syntactic islands). (iii) These properties of minden are distinctive within the class of particle + indeterminate pronoun complexes (such as vala-ki lit. ‘vala-who’, ‘somebody’), which could be said to lack quantificational force.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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