Domain Restriction and the Arguments of Quantificational Determiners

Domain Restriction and the Arguments of Quantificational Determiners

Parametrization of Quantificational Determiners and Head-Internal Relatives

This paper proposes that quantificational determiners come in two varieties, one which makes use of feature checking and the other that relies on binding, and that the typology of head-internal relative clauses (HIRC) is sensitive to this parametrization of quantificational determiners, once the existence of HIRC is made possible by an independent parameter. Challenge: Our point of departure is...

Parametrization of Quantificational Determiners and Head-Internal Relatives

This paper investigates the factors that determine the typological distribution of headinternal relative clauses (HIRC), especially in view of the fact that there are two types of them. Our focus of attention is on the nature of determiners. Studies by Bonneau (1992), Basilico (1996), and Grosu and Landman (1998) all point to the determiner system as playing a crucial role in HIRC. None of thes...

Dutch Children’s Interpretation of Quantificational Determiners: Must the Universal Property of Conservativity Be Learned?

Conservativity has been proposed as a universal property of natural language determiners, so it is possible that children apply it to quantifier interpretations from a young age. Using a picture verification task and sentences using the conservative determiner al (all) and the non-conservative quantificational adverb alleen (only), we tested whether or not children interpreted quantifiers conse...

Processing and domain selection: Quantificational variability effects.

Three studies investigated how readers interpret sentences with variable quantificational domains, e.g., The army was mostly in the capital, where mostly may quantify over individuals or parts (Most of the army was in the capital) or over times (The army was in the capital most of the time). It is proposed that a general conceptual economy principle, No Extra Times (Majewski 2006, in preparatio...