Focus structure and the referential status of indefinite quantificational expressions

Autor/innen

  • Carsten Breul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.23.2001.111

Abstract

Many authors who subscribe to some version of generative syntax account for the two readings of [...] sentences [...] in terms of LF-ambiguity. There is assumed to be covert quantifier raising (QR), which results in two distinct possibilities for the indefinite quantificational expressions involved to take scope over each other [...] In this paper, an alternative account is proposed which dispenses with the idea that there are different scope relations involved in the readings of […] sentences [...] and, consequently, with QR as the syntactic operation to be assumed for generating the respective LFs. I argue that it is rather focus structure in connection with type semantic issues pertaining to the indefinite quantificational expressions involved which result in the different readings associated with [...] sentences.

 

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2001

Zitationsvorschlag

Breul, Carsten. 2001. „Focus Structure and the Referential Status of Indefinite Quantificational Expressions“. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 23 (Januar):23-38. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.23.2001.111.