 The term “generalized quantifier” reflects that these entities were introduced in logic as generalizations of the standard quantifiers of modern logic, \(\forall\) and  \(\exists\).[1]  In retrospect one may say that \(\forall\) and \(\exists\) have been found to be just two instances of a much more general concept of quantifier, making the term “generalized” superfluous. Today it is also common to use just “quantifier” for the general notion, but “generalized quantifier” is still frequent for historical reasons. This article employs both terms, with a tendency to insert “generalized” in logical contexts, and to drop it in linguistic contexts.