TY - JOUR ID - 52662 TI - The Quantifiers in Persian JO - Language Research JA - JOLR LA - en SN - 1026-2288 AU - Ghadiri, Leila AD - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Linguistics, Tehran University Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - 95 EP - 108 KW - quantifier phrase KW - determiner phrase KW - plural marker KW - merge KW - move DO - 10.22059/jolr.2014.52662 N2 - In this paper, after reviewing the classification of quantifiers, we aim toanswer the question of whether the merge position of quantifiers kheili and ba’zi is in the DP. Contra Moazzami (2006) and Samiian (1983), we show that these quantifiers do not originate  in the DP. By appealing to the preference of Merge over Move and in the light of Giusti (1991), we propose that these elements merge as head of the quantifier phrase and appear both in quantitive and partitive constructions. UR - https://jolr.ut.ac.ir/article_52662.html L1 - https://jolr.ut.ac.ir/article_52662_3cba66e3b5cf041149bb7dbae2ec07a9.pdf ER -