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Almost All Complex Quantifiers Are Simple
- Jakub Szymanik
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Abstract
We prove that PTIME generalized quantifiers are closed under Boolean operations, iteration, cumulation and resumption.
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- Title
- Almost All Complex Quantifiers Are Simple
- Book Title
- The Mathematics of Language
- Book Subtitle
- 10th and 11th Biennial Conference, MOL 10, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 28-30, 2007, and MOL 11, Bielefeld, Germany, August 20-21, 2009, Revised Selected Papers
- Pages
- pp 272-280
- Copyright
- 2010
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-14322-9_21
- Print ISBN
- 978-3-642-14321-2
- Online ISBN
- 978-3-642-14322-9
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Series Volume
- 6149
- Series ISSN
- 0302-9743
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
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- generalized quantifiers
- computational complexity
- polyadic quantifiers
- Boolean combinations
- iteration
- cumulation
- resumption
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- Editors
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Christian Ebert
(19)
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Gerhard Jäger
(19)
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Jens Michaelis
(20)
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Christian Ebert
- Editor Affiliations
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- 19. Department of Linguistics, University of Tuebingen
- 20. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Bielefeld
- Authors
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Jakub Szymanik
(21)
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Jakub Szymanik
- Author Affiliations
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- 21. Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 6, 3584, CS, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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