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Scope ambiguities through the mirror
Abstract
In this paper we look at the interpretation of Quantifier Phrases from the perspective of Symmetric Categorial Grammar. We show how the apparent mismatch between the syntactic and semantic behaviour of these expressions can be resolved in a typelogical system equipped with two Merge relations: one for syntactic units, and one for the evaluation contexts of the semantic values associated with these syntactic units.
Abstract
In this paper we look at the interpretation of Quantifier Phrases from the perspective of Symmetric Categorial Grammar. We show how the apparent mismatch between the syntactic and semantic behaviour of these expressions can be resolved in a typelogical system equipped with two Merge relations: one for syntactic units, and one for the evaluation contexts of the semantic values associated with these syntactic units.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- The linguistics enterprise 1
- Scope ambiguities through the mirror 11
- Phonetic and phonological approaches to early word recognition 55
- Restructuring head and argument in West-Germanic 79
- Scope assignment in child language 99
- The learnability of A-bar chains 115
- Looking at anaphora 141
- Incremental discourse processing 167
- Theoretical validity and psychological reality of the grammatical code 183
- Monitoring for speech errors has different functions in inner and overt speech 213
- What’s in a quantifier? 235
- Minimal versus not so minimal pronouns 257
- Against partitioned readings of reciprocals 283
- The representation and processing of fixed and compositional expressions 291
- Clitic doubling in Spanish 315
- Metalinguistic processing and acquisition within the MOGUL framework 327
- Catching heffalumps 345
- Index 377
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors vii
- The linguistics enterprise 1
- Scope ambiguities through the mirror 11
- Phonetic and phonological approaches to early word recognition 55
- Restructuring head and argument in West-Germanic 79
- Scope assignment in child language 99
- The learnability of A-bar chains 115
- Looking at anaphora 141
- Incremental discourse processing 167
- Theoretical validity and psychological reality of the grammatical code 183
- Monitoring for speech errors has different functions in inner and overt speech 213
- What’s in a quantifier? 235
- Minimal versus not so minimal pronouns 257
- Against partitioned readings of reciprocals 283
- The representation and processing of fixed and compositional expressions 291
- Clitic doubling in Spanish 315
- Metalinguistic processing and acquisition within the MOGUL framework 327
- Catching heffalumps 345
- Index 377
