| Kratzer, A.: 1998, Scope or pseudoscope? Are there wide-scope indefinites?, in S. Rothstein (ed.), Events in Grammar, pp 163--196, Kluwer, Dordrecht |
....quantifier over individuals outscoping the universal worldquantifier) 30) Mary hopes that a friend of mine will win. The peculiar scope taking behavior of indefinites (as opposed to universal, proportional, and negative quantifiers) has recently been addressed by a number of authors [1, 28, 32, 39, 46], and there are good prospects for a successful theory that generates even the wide Q R de re readings of indefinites without any recourse to non local DP movement. You are encouraged to read these works, but for our current purposes here, all we want to point out is that, with respect to the ....
Kratzer, Angelika. 1998. Scope or Pseudoscope? Are there Wide-Scope Indefinites? In Events and Grammar, edited by Susan Rothstein, pages 163--196. Kluwer Dordrecht. 16
....haven t convinced me so far. Thus let us look at more data. The problem of overgeneration arises not only with the free scoping of indefinites: another potential source of overgeneration is the unrestricted existential closure of choice function variables which is assumed in the literature. Kratzer (1998) wants to prevent the generation of unwanted LFs by interpreting indefinites as free choice function variables whose value is determined by the context. The relevant sentence discussed is due to Abusch (1994) 23) Every professor rewarded every student who read a book he had recommended. The ....
....Arnim von Stechow 218 It should be clear from the paraphrases that we can avoid non local QR. The job is taken over by a non local binding of the choice variable. The possibility that indefinites widen their scope freely has been disputed in the literature by Fodor Sag (1982) and, recently, by Kratzer (1998). Kratzer argues that the scope extension of indefinites requires a bound pronoun somewhere in the indefinite. Kratzer holds the view that the choice variables remain free at LF; the context specifies their value. She observes that in the following pair of examples only (25a) has an intermediate ....
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