universal(-Iike) quantifiers in Japanese
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In Japanese a certain kind of phrase, which Kuroda (1965) calls "indetenninate", can function as a wh-phrase, existential quantifier or universal quantifier depending on context and the use of particles. I argue that "indetenninates" are contrastive-focused, and that the meanings of existential and universal quantifiers are made of (in)finite application of disjunction ("ka") and conjunction ("mo") respectively. Furthennore, I argue that the same disjunction, "ka", is used in wh-questions and the meaning of wh-questions is derived with disjunction while retaining Hamblin's (1973) claim that the meaning of wh-questions is a set of propositions. Areas of interest: indetenninates, wh-questions, disjunction, choice function
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