Quantifier Scope in German

Pafel, Jürgen

doi:10.1075/la.84

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“…Relatedly, ScoT determines whether in a particular configuration, a certain scope relation is possible in principle. ScoT does not regulate aspects of quantifier scope, such as languagespecific restrictions on whether a particular (type of ) quantifier can undergo QR or reconstruction (see, e.g., Lechner 1998b andPafel 2005 for additional restrictions in German, and Szabolcsi 2010 for a more general survey).…”

Section: The Scope Of Scotmentioning

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Word Order and Scope: Transparent Interfaces and the ¾ Signature

Bobaljik

Wurmbrand

2012

Linguistic Inquiry

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A recurring pattern of partial correlations between word order variation and scope possibilities (the 3 ⁄ 4 signature) supports a particular view of economy constraints in syntax, with these properties: (1) There are economy conditions (soft constraints) that value a particular type of correspondence between LF and PF representations. (2) These constraints are unidirectional: LF (broadly construed) is calculated first and determines PF (surface word order). (3) Scope rigidity is a property not of languages but of specific configurations, and the distribution of rigidity effects is (largely) predictable from independent variation in the syntactic resources of various languages.We focus here on the interaction of these three assumptions and on the role of (2) in predicting the 3 ⁄ 4 signature effect. We contrast our proposal with Reinhart's (2005) Interface Economy model, in which economy conditions regulate a mapping that takes overt structure as its input and yields permissible interpretations. OverviewOur primary concern in this article is the relationship between word order and (certain aspects of ) interpretation. It is a commonplace observation that there appears to be an inverse correlation between rigid word order and scope rigidity: languages with free word order are often said to ''wear their LF [scope] on their sleeves'' (Szabolcsi 1997:111), while languages with restricted possibilities for word order permutation, like English, have a high tolerance for scope ambiguity. Our focus here is not on this (inverse) correlation per se, but on the particular ways in which For useful feedback, we wish to thank as well as the participants in seminars at the University of Connecticut (Spring 2007(Spring , 2009) and audiences at Nanzan University, Harvard University, GLOW 31 (Newcastle), CGSW 23 (Edinburgh), and PLC 33. We also thank the anonymous referees for their very helpful comments and suggestions. Our names are listed in alphabetical order.

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Section: The Scope Of Scotmentioning

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Word Order and Scope: Transparent Interfaces and the ¾ Signature

Bobaljik

Wurmbrand

2012

Linguistic Inquiry

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“…The unmarked order is merely a preference in informationally neutral contexts. All logically possible orderings of the three arguments in German ditransitives are grammatical word orders, but signify non‐neutral information packages (Diesing , Pafel ). I propose that these word orders are derived by movement of arguments to their respective D‐licensor, but that Cyclic Linearization is merely the unmarked preference, deviations from it being allowed when these are accompanied by the intention to signal non‐neutral propositional content.…”

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D‐Licensing in Adjectival Passives

Hallman

2019

Studia Linguistica

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This article argues that in addition to the familiar Case licensing requirement known as the ‘Case Filter’, nominal arguments (DPs) are subject to a requirement that I refer to as ‘D‐licensing’, construed as a requirement of DPs themselves. It is claimed that this notion of D‐licensing is useful in the characterization of restrictions on adjectival participle formation. Adjectival participles fail to license the full complement frame of the corresponding verb not because they fail to assign Case, but because they lack D‐licensing structure.

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“…CLE incorporates some of these preferences (Moran 1988;Alshawi 1992). 5 Many researchers argue that the whole range of quantifier scope effects can only be accounted for in terms of an interaction of different principles (Ioup 1975;Fodor 1982;Hurum 1988;Pafel 2005). Kurtzman and MacDonald (1993) adduce the contrast between a sentence like (33b) and its passive version (34) as evidence for such an interaction.…”

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“…for a much more sophisticated and independently motivated version of this approach. 5 SeePafel (2005) for further kinds of preferences.Works CitedAbney, Steve. 1987.…”

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Semantic Underspecification

Egg

2010

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Semantic underspecification is a technique to capture several readings of an ambiguous expression in one single representation by deliberately omitting the differences between the readings in the representation. First, underspecification formalisms will be presented to introduce underspecification in general and to outline important properties of these formalisms that allow their classification into subgroups. After expounding the kinds of ambiguity to which underspecification can be applied, the article then presents various motivations for the use of underspecification, and shows how underspecified semantic representations can be further processed.

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Quantifier Scope in German

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Word Order and Scope: Transparent Interfaces and the ¾ Signature

Word Order and Scope: Transparent Interfaces and the ¾ Signature

D‐Licensing in Adjectival Passives

Semantic Underspecification

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