Quantifiers and Variables: Insights from Sign Language (ASL and LSF)

<p>In standard logical systems, quantifiers and variables are essential to express complex relations among objects. Natural language has expressions that have an analogous function: some noun phrases play the role of quantifiers (e.g. <em>every man</em>), and some pronouns play the...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Philippe Schlenker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2010-12-01
Series:The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v6i0.1583