scholarly journals Some Notes on Floating Quantifiers

2017 ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Genoveva Puskás
Keyword(s):  
Floating Quantifiers

scholarly journals Predicative Possessives, Relational Nouns, and Floating Quantifiers

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 825-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Tsoulas ◽  
Rebecca Woods
Keyword(s):  
Floating Quantifiers ◽  
Relational Nouns

Green (1971) notes the apparent unacceptability of certain quantificational expressions as possessors of singular head nouns. We provide data from a range of English dialects to show that such constructions are not straightforwardly unacceptable, but there are a number of restrictions on their use. We build on Kayne’s ( 1993 , 1994 ) analysis of English possessives in conjunction with considerations on floating quantifiers to explain both the types of possessive that are permitted in the relevant dialects and their distribution, which is restricted to predicative position.

Children's knowledge of hierarchical phrase structure: quantifier floating in Japanese

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 628-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAKAAKI SUZUKI ◽  
NAOKO YOSHINAGA
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Sentence Comprehension ◽  
Phrase Structure ◽  
Linear Ordering ◽  
Comprehension Strategy ◽  
Old Japanese ◽  
Floating Quantifiers ◽  
Children's Grammar

AbstractThe interpretation of floating quantifiers in Japanese requires knowledge of hierarchical phrase structure. However, the input to children is insufficient or even misleading, as our analysis indicates. This presents an intriguing question on learnability: do children interpret floating quantifiers based on a structure-dependent rule which is not obvious in the input or do they employ a sentence comprehension strategy based on the available input? Two experiments examined four- to six-year-old Japanese-speaking children for their interpretations of floating quantifiers in SOV and OSV sentences. The results revealed that no child employed a comprehension strategy in terms of the linear ordering of constituents, and most five- and six-year-olds correctly interpreted floating quantifiers when word-order difficulty was reduced. These facts indicate that children's interpretation of floating quantifiers is structurally dependent on hierarchical phrase structure, suggesting that this knowledge is a part of children's grammar despite the insufficient input available to them.

Processing of Information Structure and Floating Quantifiers in Japanese

2006 ◽  
pp. 103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kei Yoshimoto ◽  
Masahiro Kobayashi ◽  
Hiroaki Nakamura ◽  
Yoshiki Mori
Keyword(s):  
Information Structure ◽  
Floating Quantifiers

Floating numerals and floating quantifiers

Lingua ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 117 (5) ◽  
pp. 814-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mana Kobuchi-Philip
Keyword(s):  
Floating Quantifiers

scholarly journals Oblique control in Russian

Rhema ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 106-125
Author(s):  
Fyodor V. Baykov
Keyword(s):  
Control Structures ◽  
Object Control ◽  
Obligatory Control ◽  
Narrow Scope ◽  
Dative Case ◽  
Floating Quantifiers ◽  
Embedded Clause

This paper seeks to investigate some properties of oblique control in Russian. It is demonstrated that oblique control is a subtype of obligatory control, but has some peculiar properties of its own, distinguishing it from object control: Floating quantifiers in oblique control structures necessarily surface in dative case, and the controller DP cannot take narrow scope limited to the embedded clause only.

Floating Quantifiers in Germanic

2010 ◽  
pp. 137-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuliana Giusti
Keyword(s):  
Floating Quantifiers
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