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A unified theory of scope for quantifiers and wh-phrases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1998

CARL J. POLLARD  and
EUN JUNG YOO
CARL J. POLLARD
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University
EUN JUNG YOO
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University
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Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of quantifier and wh-operator scope in terms of a lexicalized theory of quantifier storage, within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. The proposed analysis provides an alternative to the derivational approach wherein quantifier scope is determined at a separate level of representation via movement, and shows how scope of quantifiers and wh-phrases (fronted or in situ) can be handled in a unified way in a constraint-based grammar. Lexicalization of quantifier storage offers an account of scope facts in raising and unbounded dependency constructions which have been problematic in an earlier constraint-based approach to quantifier scope.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Linguistics , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , September 1998 , pp. 415 - 445
Copyright
1998 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

An early version of this paper was presented at the 1995 HPSG Workshop in Tübingen, and we are grateful to the workshop participants for useful discussion. We especially thank the following people for detailed comments and suggestions on earlier drafts: Bob Borsley, Anke Feldhaus, Georgia Green, Tilman Höhle, David Johnson, Andreas Kathol, Tibor Kiss, Shalom Lappin, Ivan Sag and two anonymous Journal of Linguistics referees. The research reported here was supported by NSF Grant No. SBR-9410532.