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This project examines the semantics and pragmatics of numeral modifiers across languages, focusing on how these expressions convey quantitative information. It aims to uncover connections between numerical expressions and their contextual usage, enhancing understanding of scalar quantification.
Most languages have a fairly well developed system of words for numbers, called numerals.
It is cross-linguistically common, moreover, for languages to have a very rich paradigm of modifiers of such numerals.
For instance, English allows the numeral ""fifty"" to be modified by comparatives (""more than 50""), (adverbial) superlatives (""at least 50""), equatives (""as many as 50""), locative prepositions (""over 50""), directional prepositions (""up to 50""), disjunctions (""50 or more"") and ad…
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