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Strong and Weak Quantifiers in Malayalam

Dr. Soumya, P. N.

Introduction

The strength of a quantifier determiner depends on the specific readings available for it in its contexts of occurrence. This paper aims to put forward a way to distinguish between the strong and weak quantifiers in Malayalam based on their internal composition.

This paper is organized in the following manner. The first section lays out the data. Section 2 discusses ‘there’-test as a means to distinguish strong and weak determiners and show how it is ineffective when applied to Malayalam quantifiers. Section 3 discusses Moltmann (2006)’s definition of strong and weak quantifiers. Section 4 analyses the quantifiers in Malayalam based on this definition and shows that the quantifiers having –um in their composition are the strong quantifiers following the definition of Moltmann (2006).

1. Quantifiers in Malayalam

Quantifiers (more specifically scalar quantifiers) in Malayalam can correspond to a single word or a complex structure of morphemes. That is, a quantifier is often composed of more than one morpheme, each having a role in the composition of that quantifier. A scalar quantifier in Malayalam usually has a quantifier word, an NP and a coordination morpheme in its composition. There are some scalar quantifiers which have just the quantifier word in their composition as well.

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Dr. Soumya P N
Assistant Professor on contract
Thunchathezhuthachan Malayalam University, Tirur
Tippu Sulthan Road
Malappuram District
Tirur 676502
Kerala
India
soumyapaloor@gmail.com

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