About meanings as a rule not included in dictionaries

• Main Authors: Violetta Koseska-Toszewa, Maksim Duszkin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences 2015-11-01
• Series: Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives
• Subjects: Quantification; quantifier; existentiality; universality; uniqueness; strong and weak quantificational meaning; verbal group; semantic structure of the sentence; state; event
• Online Access: https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/cs-ec/article/view/956

About meanings as a rule not included in dictionaries The article discusses the problem of ambiguity of the exponents of logical existential quantification occurring in the verbal group of Bulgarian, Polish and Russian sentences: Bulg. отвреме навреме, понякога, Pol. od czasu do czasu, czasem, czasami, Rus. время от времени, иногда. This ambiguity can be explained by strong and weak existential quantification. Lexical semantics did not distinguish between these two types of existentiality. Here we present a description of selected exponents of logical existential quantification in Bulgarian, Polish and Russian.