ISSN: 2306-5737E-ISSN: 2658-4069
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana
Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies
ISSN: 2306-5737E-ISSN: 2658-4069
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana
Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies 

On the contexts with CMP-quantification in the New Testament

DOI:10.30842/alp23065737193111149
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Khomchenkova I. A. K opisaniyu kontekstov s CMP-kvantifikatsiyey v Novom Zavete. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 111–149.

In this contribution, I describe the contexts of CMP-quantification in six books of the New Testament (Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of John, Acts of the Apostles and Revelation of St. John) translated into seven languages (Ancient Greek, Russian, English, Spanish, Hill Mari, Udmurt, Ossetic). From the 170 contexts with CMP-quantification selected after the initial processing, I excluded examples where the universal quantifier was absent in at least two languages or where it marked quantification of plural objects. The remaining 123 contexts were divided into seven groups: animate collective (‘AnimPl’ including 39 contexts plus 11 contexts with metaphorical use of spatial nouns), animate singular (‘AnimSg’ with 2 contexts), inanimate singular (‘InanSg’ with 8 contexts), spatial (‘Space’ with 36 contexts), temporal (‘Time’ with 3 contexts), uncountable abstract (‘UncountAbs’ with 21 contexts), and other types of uncountable (‘Uncount’ with 3 contexts). Cross-linguistically, apart from a basic universal quantifier like the English all, languages can have specialized CMP-markers or other items like, e.g., the English whole. In my analysis, I show that non-basic universal quantifiers have different frequencies in both the contexts and languages analyzed. For instance, in English, the lexeme whole is attested 28 times, while in Ancient Greek its counterpart is frequent in ‘InanSg’ contexts. However, unlike in Hill Mari, Ancient Greek and Udmurt, it is quite rare in the ‘Space’, ‘AnimPl’, ‘AnimPl_Loc’ contexts and is totally unattested in the ‘UncountAbs’ group. In Ossetic, the lexeme ægas shows 26 occurrences, while in English and Ancient Greek its counterpart is frequent in ‘InanSg’ contexts and is rather rare in ‘AnimPl_Loc’ and ‘Space’ contexts and is practically absent from ‘AnimPl’ and ‘UncountAbs’ contexts. Overall, non-basic marking is expected in the ‘AnimSg’ and ‘Time’ groups, but it is rarely used in contexts with uncountable objects (‘UncountAbs’ and ‘Uncount’).

Keywords
universal quantification, CMP-quantification, corpus linguistics , parallel corpora, New Testament, Ossetic, Hill Mari, Udmurt, English, Russian, Spanish, Ancient Greek
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Keywords
universal quantification, CMP-quantification, corpus linguistics , parallel corpora, New Testament, Ossetic, Hill Mari, Udmurt, English, Russian, Spanish, Ancient Greek
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