Quantifier scope in German

Abstract

Relative quantifier scope in German depends, in contrast to English, very much on word order. The scope possibilities of a quantifier are determined by its surface position, its base position and the type of the quantifier. In this paper we propose a multicomponent analysis for German quantifiers computing the scope of the quantifier, in particular its minimal nuclear scope, depending on the syntactic configuration it occurs in.

Statistical Methods in Computer Science: A Comparative Review of Inductive and Deductive Approaches

“…Parsing assigns grammatical words to a grammar and deduces an item as a consequence. Parsing algorithms, such as schema parsing algorithms, provide a concise way of performing parsing, and the concept of early parsing is also utilized [20].…”

Licensing German negative polarity items in LTAG

“…In their analysis, which was developed for English, MINS and MINP are the same, in other words, there is no separate MINP feature. In German, the minimal scope of a quantifier seems to depend not only on the verb the quantifier attaches to but also on other factors (see Kallmeyer and Romero, 2006 in this volume for the influence of word order on quantifier scope in German). This justifies the assumption that German MINS if different from English MINS.…”