ABSTRACT: The semantics of Modern Greek adjective polis “many, much, more, very, a lot” is of ultimate semantic interest. Greek polis “many, much, more, very, a lot” appears to be under the influence ...

English and many other languages distinguish between count nouns, which refer to entities that can be counted, and mass nouns, which refer to entities that cannot. Count nouns, such as dog, child, and ...

ABSTRACT: We used a sentence-picture matching task to demonstrate that heuristics can influence language comprehension. Interpretation of quantifier scope ambiguous sentences such as Every kid ...