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• TITLE: Quantifier None and Its Relation to the Concept of Zero

  AUTHORS: Zaina Tsouhlaris

  KEYWORDS: Semantics, English Grammar, Quantifier None, “Nothingness”, Zero, “Zeroness”

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, Vol.14 No.1, February 29, 2024

  ABSTRACT: Native speakers of English use the negative quantifier none in constructions followed by the singular or the plural form of the main verb in a sentence like None (of the students) is/are present. This article intends to explain why such choice is permissible and under which semantic circumstances. Our explanation is based on a possible relation between quantifier none and the concept of “zero”, “nothingness” or “zeroness” as we would like to name it, as well as the collective interpretation of “zero” as a cardinal with 0 value or the result of a mental subtraction that overlaps with the semantics of the empty set, i.e., a set with no members at all.