First note that the quantifier c-commands BOOK. Short C-command of this sort is called government. Government differs from c-command in that a node can be governed by only one governor, where as a ...

In the English as in most but not all languages (i.e. Chinese) number can be extracted from the noun leaving a lexical-propositional form of the noun. From book and books we get object predicate: 1.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper proposes a new analysis of English partitives in which a quantifier is immediately followed by an of-phrase. It has been claimed ...