Arthur Merin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Arthur Merin is involved.

Article

Merin, Arthur 2005 Proportion Quantifier Interpretations of Indefinites and Endocentric Relevance Relations Bare Plurals, Indefinites, and Weak–Strong Distinction, Vogeleer, Svetlana (ed.), pp. 147–186 | Article

We show how evidential relevance relations between restrictor predicates N and attribute predicates induce proportion quantifier interpretations of indefinite Det N. A paradigmsetting role is played by ‘Protagorean’ determiners, many and few, which intuitively designate large and small quantities,… read more