The study of quantification traditionally focused on structures where quantificational meanings are encoded in determiners. Only as a later development attention was paid to quantificational strategies that rely on adverbs, or affixes. In this paper I discuss three varieties of quantificational strategies attested in two sign languages (ASL and LSC) and argue that even the apparent instances of determiner quantification in those languages make use of the more “constructional” way of encoding quantificational meanings that partially reflect the mapping onto tripartite structures overtly. Further, lexical quantification is addressed in the domain of distributivity.

This research has been partly made possible by the grants awarded to the author by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI2009-10492) and to UR-LING by the Govern de la Generalitat de Catalunya (2009SGR00763), as well as by COST Action IS 1006 SignGram.