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Indeterminate Numerals and Their Alternatives

In this paper, I look at a type of approximative construction in English involving numerals and an indefinite determiner, as in (2) below. With these numerals, which I call indeterminate numerals, some appears post-numerally, affixed to the preceding numeral. The interpretation in these examples is one where the indeterminate numeral expresses a range of possible numbers, but where the speaker doesn’t know the precise number that satisfies the existential claim expressed by the sentence, as observed by Anderson (2015, 2016). These numerals are theoretically interesting due to their reliance on the epistemic indefinite some. This sets it apart syntactically from other instances of approximation, in that the element that is expressing approximation is not an adverbial or a preposition.