Monotonicity, Closure and theSemantics of few
Stephanie Solt · 2006
It is now common to analyze indefinite DPs as requiring both quantificational (type 〈〈e,t〉,t〉) and predicative (type 〈e,t〉) interpretations, with the two related by a set of type shifting rules (Partee 1986). In one direction, the BE operation maps generalized quantifiers to the corresponding predicates, while in the other, A or Existential Closure (Heim 1982) “lifts” predicates to generalized quantifiers.