Mass terms and quantification

DOI10.1007/BF00603391MaRDI QIDQ3760520zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan Tore Lønning

Publication date 1987

Published in Linguistics and Philosophy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00603391

zbMATH Keywords

Definite descriptionsformal treatment of extensional occurrences of mass termsGeneralized quantifiersNarrow scope negation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logic of natural languages (03B65)

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