Open AccessLexical NP and VP quantifiers in Bulgarian
Author(s) -
Kalpakchieva Kristina
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
cognitive studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-2397
pISSN - 2080-7147
DOI - 10.11649/cs.2011.008
Subject(s) - noun phrase , bulgarian , linguistics , verb , verb phrase , phrase , scope (computer science) , expression (computer science) , subject (documents) , sentence , computer science , natural language processing , noun , lexical item , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , programming language , library science
Lexical NP and VP quantifiers in BulgarianThe paper focuses on uniqueness, existential and universal quantification within the Bulgarian noun and verb phrase. Quantifiers scope is considered with respect to whether the quantifiers are used alone or in a group with other expressions. Another factor that affects the strength of quantifiers is the expression’s containing additional specifying functions or setting some circumstance or condition. Quantifiers within the verb phrase are particularly strongly affected by other conditions, while quantifiers within the subject NP have a broad scope and are not affected by the additional conditions of the situation described.