Incremental quantification and the dynamics of pair-list phenomena

Incremental quantification and the dynamics of pair-list phenomena

Distributive universals are unique among natural language quantifiers in the following three ways: (i) matrix interrogatives that contain them accept pair-list answers; (ii) indefinites and disjunctions in their scope may assume arbitrary functional readings; and (iii) they permit sentence-internal...

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Main Author: Dylan Bumford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2015-05-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
Subjects:
universal quantification
pair-list readings
dynamic semantics
conjunction
functional readings
exceptional scope
Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/3019

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