Les adjectifs primaires: entre quantité et qualité

Abstract

This paper aims at describing how qualification and quantification meet when quantity nouns are accompanied by a quantifier and a basic adjective. As in English, the combination between a quantifier and a basic adjective can be interpreted as a complex determiner, with a nuance of qualification in the background however.

Keywords

• basic adjectives
• quantifiers
• quantification
• qualification
• quantity nouns
• French
• English