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Pragmatic and semantic constraints on numeral quantifier position in Japanese

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Pamela Downing
Pamela Downing
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Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA.
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Japanese, like many other languages, permits numeral expressions to appear in several positions relative to the argument whose number they specify. This article concentrates on just two of the possibilities, the ‘Pre-Nominal’ and the ‘Q-Float’ numeral positions, describing a number of semantic, syntactic and pragmatic differences between them.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 1993 , pp. 65 - 93
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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