Degree vs. Manner Well: A Case Study in Selective Binding

Combining forms such as over-, underand ill-, as in overloaded, underpaid and ill-nourished show a similar distribution and pattern of behavior, and are thus likely to be amenable to a similar analisis, but since their syntax and semantics is slightly di erent from that of manner adverbs, we will not discuss them here. a degree reading and a \quality" reading in examples like (3a), but only a quality reading in (3b). (For purposes of brevity, we focus in this paper on the speci c case of well-loaded, though this phenomenon is quite general.)