Quantificational prepositions
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چکیده
In this note we discuss a couple of Dutch prepositions that systematically combine with a common noun phrase, without any determiner. We explore whether we can analyze these prepositions as having ‘incorporated’ a determiner, semantically speaking, and discuss the consequences of this analysis for the status of bare nominals, the demarcation of syntactic and semantic categories, and the relation between form and meaning.
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