ABSTRACT

A number of linguists (S. Fischer, D. Lillo-Martin, & K. Petronio, personal communications, 1990) studying the syntax of American Sign Language (ASL) have noted constructions involving numerical quantifiers (NQs) in which the quantifier is separated from the noun or noun phrase (NP) it quantifies, as in the following example (see Appendix for an explanation of the transcription notation):

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