Re: [math-fun] Quantifiers

A great deal of language interpretation depends on context, and in particular cultural context. Trying to achieve language fluency without a cultural background is not going to work well. On 6/15/20 05:28, James Propp wrote:

Math gives us one way to dissect the ambiguity of sentences like “In New York City, someone is attacked by a pigeon every thirty seconds” (is it always the same person? is it always the same pigeon?) by way of quantifiers. Does linguistics have its own way of talking about the different interpretations of such a sentence?

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