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Journal of Semantics Advance Access originally published online on July 27, 2009
Journal of Semantics 2009 26(4):367-392; doi:10.1093/jos/ffp008
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Branching Quantification v. Two-way Quantification

Nina Gierasimczuk and Jakub Szymanik

University of Amsterdam

Correspondence: NINAN GIERASIMCZUK, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Science Park 904 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands, e-mail: n.gierasimczuk{at}uva.nl

Correspondence: JAKUB SZYMANIK, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Universiteit van Amsterdam Science Park 904 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands, e-mail: j.szymanik{at}uva.nl


  Abstract

We discuss the thesis formulated by Hintikka (1973) that certain natural language sentences require non-linear quantification to express their meaning. We investigate sentences with combinations of quantifiers similar to Hintikka's examples and propose a novel alternative reading expressible by linear formulae. This interpretation is based on linguistic and logical observations. We report on our experiments showing that people tend to interpret sentences similar to Hintikka sentence in a way consistent with our interpretation.

Received for publication 25 August 2008. Revision received 16 January 2009. Accepted for publication 25 April 2009.


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