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Name General-Quantifier-Plural-NP Construction
Semantic function of cxn Specifying the quantity of the THING REFERRED TO as more than 1 in terms of a vague QUANTIFIER.
Usage conditions The REFERENT does not have to be expressed explicitly if it can be identified from the linguistic or situational context (definite null-instantiation).
Semantic role of slots QUANTIFIER THINGS REFERRED TO
Syntactic form enough
several
many
more
most
few
fewer
fewest
all
both
some
any
Npl
contextual anchor point
Example All professors attended the meeting. Can I have some?
Agreement plural verb
General cxn-type QUANTIFIER-NP CONSTRUCTION
Construction family NP CONSTRUCTION
Literature Herbst & Hoffmann (2023: Ch.5)
Annotators/Date TRH/04/21F