• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Modifiers and Quantifiers in Natural Language
  • Beteiligte: Parsons, Terence
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1980
  • Erschienen in: Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1080/00455091.1980.10715756
  • ISSN: 0229-7051; 2633-0490
  • Schlagwörter: General Medicine
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>This paper has two parts. In part I, I review two older accounts of the logical forms of modifiers (adjectives, adverbs and prepositional phrases), and suggest that they may be combined with each other so as to yield a theory that is better than either of its parts taken singly. Part of this theory involves the idea that certain sentences refer to events, states, or processes; Part II of this paper shows how to use this idea to account for tenses and temporal adverbials, and offers a new account of ordinary language quantification.</jats:p>