Weak Quantifiers and Information Structure
Gerhard Jäger · ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) · 1995
The title of my talk at the NELS meeting was "Topic, Focus and Weak Quantifiers".* A paper with this title, which differs from the present one in some crucial respects, is to be published elswhere (Jäger('94)). Basically, the strong-weak distinction is semantic in nature. I use the term "weak1 quantifier " here for those quantifiers which may get a existential reading.