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Symmetric and contrapositional quantifiers

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The article studies two related issues. First, it introduces the notion of the contraposition of quantifiers which is a “dual” notion of symmetry and has similar relations to co-intersectivity as symmetry has to intersectivity. Second, it shows how symmetry and contraposition can be generalised to higher order type quantifiers, while preserving their relations with other notions from generalized quantifiers theory.

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  1. Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS and Universite Paris 7, Case 7031, 2 Place Jussieu, 75251, Paris, France

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Thanks to the referee and Ross Charnock for some corrections and various suggestions

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Zuber, R. Symmetric and contrapositional quantifiers. JoLLI 16, 1–13 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10849-006-9019-9

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