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Whether there is a one-to-one mapping between semantic categories and their syntactic counterparts has been the subject of extensive research in linguistic theory (e.g. Grimshaw 1979; Pesetsky 1982; Sadock 1991). Degree expressions are a case study for the investigation of the e…

Analyses of Arabic numerals have been conducted from medieval times to the present without the use of an appropriate or coherent linguistic theory, namely, one taking into account the evolutionary path which sub-components of the numeral system have taken. Consequently, importan…