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Table of contents

Introduction Svetlana Vogeleer v-viii Part One - Bare Plurals and Indefinites The Role of Semantic Type in Differential Object Marking Tonia Bleam 3-27 On Existential Bare Plural 'Subjects': They Don't Exist! Dalina Kallulli 29-57 Dutch Bare Plurals, Faded Partitives and Subject-Object Asymmetry Albert Oosterhof 59-91 The Non-Uniformity of Quantificational Variability Effects: A Comparison of Singular Indefinites, Bare Plurals and Plural Definites Cornelia Endriss and Stefan Hinterwimmer 93-120 On the Acquisition of the Indefinite Article: A Cross-linguistic Study of French, Italian, Romanian and Spanish Child Speech Martine Coene 121-143 Part Two - Quantification and Weak–Strong Distinction Proportion Quantifier Interpretations of Indefinites and Endocentric Relevance Relations Arthur Merin 147-186 How Many Are 'Several'? Argumentation, Meaning and Layers Jacques Jayez 187-209 Contextual Restriction and Quantification in Basque Urtzi Etxeberria 211-245 The Acquisition of the Weak-Strong Distinction: The Case of the Dutch Quantifier Allemaal Bart Hollebrandse and Erik-Jan Smits 247-264