Quantifiers 195
(63) Mored kabbi lulus tes.
student all pass test
‘All the students passed the test.’
(64) Dhokter rowa mareksa na'-kana' kabbi.
doctor that AV.examine RED-child all
‘The doctor examined all the children.’
Bannya' ‘many’ has a distribution similar to kabbi. So the following pairs of
sentences are synonymous.
(65) a. Bannya' mored lulus tes.
many student pass test
‘Many students passed the test.’
b. Mored bannya' lulus tes.
student many pass test
‘Many students passed the test.'
(66) a. Ina maca bannya' ku-buku.
I AV.read many RED-book
‘Ina read a lot of books.’
b. Ina maca ku-buku bannya'.
I AV.read RED-book many
‘Ina read a lot of books.’
In the a-sentences bannya' precedes the noun it quantifies, mored ‘student’ in
(65a) and ku-buku ‘books’ in (66a), and in the b-sentences it follows the quanti-
fied noun.
Other quantifiers show slightly different distributions. For example, sa-
kone' ‘a few’ can both precede and follow the noun it quantifies when the quan-
tified noun is the subject of the sentence. This is illustrated in (67).
(67) a. Sakone' mored noles sorat dha' presiden.
a.few student AV.write letter to president
‘A few students wrote letters to the president.’
b. Mored sakone' noles sorat dha' presiden.
student a.few AV.write letter to president
‘A few students wrote letters to the president.’
While there is a slight preference among some speakers for the variant in which