Comparative quantifiers, such as more than three books, cannot take scope over any quantifier in subject position if they occupy object position. This is clearly different from the behavior of other ...

Quantifiers and intensifiers are adverbs that are used to talk about quantities, amounts or degree. Quantifiers and intensifiers are words such as enough, a lot, a little or very. Adverbs of time are ...

We can assume that children learn to count starting with one and followed by the lists of numbers in ascending order of cardinality (one, two, three). But besides numbers, in languages there are more ...

We solve a problem of Friedman by showing the existence of a logic stronger than first-order logic even for countable models, but still satisfying the general compactness theorem, assuming e.g. the ...

Last week, I described the standard quantifiers as greedy. This week, we will look at non-greedy forms of quantifiers, but first let’s discuss just what it means to be greedy.