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  <Title>Quantification in Ordinary English', In: Hintikka, J.,</Title>
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5. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In order to make an even stronger case in favor of my analysis of directional modifiers, I would have to demonstrate how it can be generalized to locative prepositions other than to and toward.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Even though I cannot discuss this issue in detail in the present paper, I should like to point out in conclusion that the notion of a PATH plays an important role in the treatment of other directional prepositions such as between, along and across. In the case of across the path seems to be bounded by two locations on tile peripherie of the referent of the NP across is combined with; i.e. across the meadow specifies some path extending from one end of the meadow to the other, Notice, however, that the two locations that mark the two endpoints of such a path cannot be chosen arbitrarily but in some sense have to be &amp;quot;opposite each other&amp;quot;. Undoubtedly, various pragmatic considerations enter the picture if one wants to make this requirement of oppositeness formally more precise. Thus, it appears that the notion of a path has to be complemented by additional constraints, if one wants to account for semantically store complex prepositions such as across, Even though I will have to leave the formulation of such additional constraints to future research, it should be obvious from these brief remarks that the notion of a path is a central notion for the semantics of directional modifiers in general,</Paragraph>
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