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Publication details [#53077]
Reed, Ann. 2010. The discourse function of floated quantifiers. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (6) : 1737–1771.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study argues that the English floated quantifiers (FQs) "all, both, and each", serve as exhaustive discourse partitives, giving rise to a universal representation of an approachable discourse group, ordinarily central to the discussion, and that in FQ position, this function is localized to the predicate.