On The Analysis of Scope Ambiguities in Comparative Constructions: Converging Evidence from Real-Time Sentence Processing and Offline Data
This paper compares two accounts of an ambiguity that arises when a comparative phrase containing an exactly differential is embedded under an intensional operator (Heim 2000). Under one account, the comparative phrase is responsible for the ambiguity (the er-scope theory), and, under the other, the...
Main Authors: | Breakstone, Micha Y., Fox, Daniel, Cremers, Alexandre, Hackl, Martin |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Linguistic Society of America
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125246 |
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