Event plurality & quantifier scope across clause boundaries

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چکیده

Legend has it that quantifiers cannot scope out of finite clauses. But whileislands for quantifier raising might exist, clauses are not that: We identifya novel environment which productively facilitates scoping universal quantifiersout embedded clauses, involving the manipulation event structure. With thehelp perfect on an embedding verb and certain adverbials presuppose abuildup towards a result state (by noon, eventually, at long last), universalquantifiers can more readily take extrawide scope. describe, account for, anddiscuss restrictions to this effect, conclude finiteclauses is banned by syntactic constraints, although context or processing mightfavor narrow readings.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Linguistic Theory

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['2163-5943', '2163-5951']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5393