Quantifier Scope in Formal Linguistics

‎The glue approach to semantic interpretation has been developed principally for Lexical Functional Grammar. Recent work has shown how glue can be used with a variety of syntactic theories and this paper outlines how it can be applied to HPSG. As well as providing an alternative form of semantics for HPSG, we believe that the benefits of HPSG glue include the following: (1) simplification of the Semantics Principle; (2) a simple and elegant treatment of modifier scope, including empirical phenomena like quantifier scope ambiguity, the interaction of scope with raising, and recursive modification; (3) an analysis of control that handles agreement between controlled subjects and their coarguments while allowing for a property denotation for the controlled clause; (4) re-use of highly efficient techniques for semantic derivation already implemented for LFG, and which target problems of ambiguity management also addressed by Minimal Recursion Semantics.

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Chapter 8. Focus and quantifier scope

Approaches to Hungarian ◽

10.1075/atoh.15.08sur ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 209-238 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Balázs Surányi ◽

Gergő Turi

Keyword(s):

Quantifier Scope

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QUANTIFIER SCOPE AND EVENT

ENGLISH LINGUISTICS ◽

10.9793/elsj1984.4.273 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 4 (0) ◽

pp. 273-293

Author(s):

NOBUHIRO KAGA

Keyword(s):

Quantifier Scope

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How to Neutralize a Finite Clause Boundary: Phase Theory and the Grammar of Bound Pronouns

Linguistic Inquiry ◽

10.1162/ling_a_00279 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 465-499 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Thomas Grano ◽

Howard Lasnik

Keyword(s):

Subject Position ◽

Boundary Phase ◽

Quantifier Scope ◽

Phase Theory ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Subject ◽

Embedded Clause ◽

Comparative Deletion ◽

Finite Clause

A bound pronoun in the subject position of a finite embedded clause renders the clause boundary relatively transparent to relations ordinarily confined to monoclausal, control, and raising configurations. For example, too/ enough-movement structures involving a finite clause boundary are degraded in sentences like * This book is too long [for John to claim [that Bill read ___ in a day]] but improved when the finite clause has a bound pronominal subject as in ? This book is too long [for John1 to claim [that he1 read ___ in a day]]. This bound pronoun effect holds across a wide range of phenomena including too/ enough-movement, tough-movement, gapping, comparative deletion, antecedent-contained deletion, quantifier scope interaction, multiple questions, pseudogapping, reciprocal binding, and multiple sluicing; we confirm the effect via a sentence acceptability experiment targeting some of these phenomena. Our account has two crucial ingredients: (a) bound pronouns optionally enter the derivation with unvalued ϕ-features and (b) phases are defined in part by convergence, so that under certain conditions, unvalued features void the phasal status of CP and extend the locality domain for syntactic operations.

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