Research on the Properties and Meaning of Quantifiers in Natural Language

Whether in daily communication or philosophical discussion, there are many expressions involving quantifiers. Quantifiers are popularly used in oral language. This paper discusses some basic problems of Quantifiers in philosophy and natural language. one side, Quantifiers are important in philosophical research as they are involves in the basic issues of epistemology, especially in those of relations, truth, universals and existence. But quantifiers in Chinese are very often omitted in expression. On the other hand, we discusses quantifiers from linguistic perspectives, and explains some characteristics of quantifiers and some significance of quantifier theory. Quantifier theory can provide theoretical support and explanation methods for language research. This paper shows how the knowledge of quantifier and quantification can help to realize the ways of their working in our language and to have a better understanding of their contributions to the above philosophical issues. The understanding of quantifier syntax and semantics is helpful for us to enrich logic theory and provide resources for the development of logic theory.