Variation, Distributivity, and the Illusion of Branching

Filippo Beghelli; Dorit Ben Shalom; Anna Szabolcsi

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-5814-5_2

Variation, Distributivity, and the Illusion of Branching

Filippo Beghelli, Dorit Ben Shalom, Anna Szabolcsi

Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics

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Abstract

A well-known observation is that (1) has a reading on whichevery buildingscopes over a fireman, but (2) does not:
(1) A fireman checks the safety of every building
(2) A fireman imagined that every building was unsafe

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ways of Scope Taking
Editors	Anna Szabolcsi
Publisher	Springer, Dordrecht
Pages	26-69
Number of pages	44
ISBN (Electronic)	9789401158145
ISBN (Print)	9780792344469, 9780792344513
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5814-5_2
State	Published - Mar 1997

Publication series

Name	Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Publisher	Springer
Volume	65
ISSN (Print)	0924-4662
ISSN (Electronic)	2215-034X

Keywords

English language (Modern)
semantics
branching quantifier
distributive meaning
quantifier scope

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