This volume presents the results of psycholinguistic research into various aspects of the
grammar of quantification. The investigations involve children and adults speakers of
different languages using a variety of experimental paradigms. A shared aspect of the studies
is that they present their experimental results as evidence evaluating linguistic theories of
quantification. Topics discussed include the interpretation of universal comparative and
superlative quantifiers quantifier spreading scope interaction between pairs of quantifiers
and between quantifiers and wh-phrases distributivity and cumulativity the interaction of
quantifier interpretation with information structure the disambiguating role of prosody the
functional overlap between universal quantification and perfectivity and much more. The focus
on experimental evidence makes this book essential reading for linguists (syntacticians
semanticists and pragmatists) psycholinguists and psychologists interested in quantification.
