At Least Some Determiners Aren't Determiners
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One of the success stories in formal semantics is the analysis of NPs as generalized quantifiers, which can be traced back from Barwise & Cooper (1981) via Montague to Frege. The great attraction of this analysis is that it allows for a compositional analysis of the meaning of noun phrases that is consistent with independently motivated assumptions about their syntax. For example, Barwise and Cooper analyze NPs like every boy, a boy, three boys and no boy as having the syntactic structure [Det N], and interpretations as second-order predicates, as follows:
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