NP Coordination in Underspecified Scope Representations

Accurately capturing the quantifier scope behaviour of coordinated NPs can be problematic for some underspecified semantic representations. We present an extension to hole semantics that allows a natural representation of sentences containing NP coordination, and which correctly captures the quantifiers’ scoping behaviour. We demonstrate that existing efficient algorithms developed to solve constraints on semantic construction also apply to the proposed extension. This allows NP coordination to be represented in practical systems for semantic underspecification.