The aim of this thesis is to uncover syntactic and semantic properties of Floating NumeraludQuantifiers (FNQ) in Japanese, and to introduce ‘non-floating’ quantifiers, i.e., mannerudadverbial quantifiers and topical adverbial quantifiers, which have no structural relations,udsuch as constituency or locality, with the noun phrase they modify. First, it is explainedudwhich locations a floating quantifier may appear at, and how the distributions can beudaccounted for. Also, I show how scrambling plays a role in generating Quantifier Floatingudconstructions. Second, I document such semantic properties of FNQ as distributivity,ud(non-) specificity, partitivity, relative scope, and resistance to scrambling effect. Last, Iudshow two adverbial quantifiers, which do not show above-mentioned syntactic andudsemantic properties of FNQ. Manner adverbial quantifiers appear in a preverbal position,udand allow a collective reading. Topical adverbial quantifiers occupy at the beginning ofudsentences, and take a scope in a different way from FNQs.
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