On word order and non-conservative percentage quantification in Slavic and German
This paper discusses conservative and non-conservative construals of percentage quantifiers (%Qs), e.g., 50% of the women vs.50% women, in Slavic and German.Based on data from corpora and cross-linguistic questionnaires, we make the novel empirical generalization that word order plays a crucial role in distinguishing between these two readings, irr