Internally Headed Relative Clauses in Akkadian - Cuneiform Digital ...

The definiteness effect in English (cf. Hallman 2004)
(6) Weakly quantified nominals in English
There is/are {a fireman / three firemen / many firemen / firemen} available.
(7) Strongly quantified nominals in English (ungrammatical in existential sentence)
**There is/are {the fireman / every fireman / most firemen / Sheila} available
Weak quantifiers (grammatical in existential sentence):
• indefinite article “a fireman”
• cardinal numbers “three firemen”
• “a few firemen” / “many firemen”
• bare plurals “firemen”
Strong quantifiers (ungrammatical in existential sentence)
• definite article “the fireman”
• universal quantifiers “every fireman” / “all firemen”
• “most firemen”
• proper nouns “Sheila”