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Preliminaries to the Treatment of Generalized Quantifiers in Situation Semantics

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This paper is about putting generalized quantifiers into situation semantics. The notions that I use differ somewhat from those of Barwise and Perry (1983), but see Barwise and Cooper (in preparation) for an attempt to integrate some of the notions suggested here in a general theory of situations.

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Cooper, R. (1987). Preliminaries to the Treatment of Generalized Quantifiers in Situation Semantics. In: Gärdenfors, P. (eds) Generalized Quantifiers. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3381-1_3

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