QUANTIFICATION IN NOUN PHRASES

The paper deals with the ways in which quantification is expressed in noun phrases in the standard Croatian language. Among other things, we focus on the grammatical and semantic types of quantifiers and on the distinctions between quantifiers, quantificators and particularisers. In relation to this, we propose a possible typology of quantifiers and quantificators. The remainder of the paper focuses on numerical (e.g. te dvije zanimljive knjige, pet pari cipela) and non-numerical quantification (e.g. puno problema, mnogi turisti, neki dogadaji), on unit-based (e.g. jedini stvarni problem, dobar osjecaj) and non-unit-based quantification (e.g. novi problemi, nasi mladenci, deset dana, zuto lisce), on affirmative (e.g. sve njezine knjige, sve tri njezine knjige) and negative general quantification (e.g. nijedna njezina knjiga, nijedna od triju njezinih knjiga), on conjunctive quantification (e.g. Ana i njezina kolegica dosle su prerano, Posjetili smo Sofiju, Plovdiv i Istanbul), on quantification in noun phrases containing collective (e.g. svjeze cvijece, cijela obitelj) and mass nouns (e.g. tanjur graha, dvije vrece brasna) and on different types of pluralisation.