Binominal each

Within the research tradition of generative grammar, quantifiers have typically been assumed to be fundamentally different from predicates such as verbs or adjectives, insofar as only the latter categories take one or more arguments, to which they assign grammatical functions such as subject, object, etc. Thus in a sentence like (1a), the predicate loves assigns its thematic roles to a subject every man and an object Jane. The LF representation (lb) treats the subject of loves as a variable bound by the quantifier. Crucially, the quantifier introduces no new grammatical relation of its own. l a) Every man loves Jane b) [every man]i [ [e]i loves Jane] 427 BINOMINAL EACH We contend that there is at least one natural language quantifier that acts exactly like adjectival or verbal predicates, in that it has a dyadic argument structure parallel to that of an adjective. The quantifier in question is each, in a particular construction that we will call “binominal each. ” This is exemplified in (2), wher