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Publication details [#48589]
Pajusalu, Renate. 2008. Pragmatics of quantifiers: The case of Estonian kõik ‘all’. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (11) : 1950–1965.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper demonstrates that the Estonian word kõik (‘all’), generally considered as a universal quantifier, in fact functions in everyday conversations as a pronoun with an additional meaning of pragmatic plenitude. The paper explores the pragmatic functions of kõik, and its grammaticalization into a particle. It also addresses the constructions in which kõik occurs.