Adverbial quantification and focus in Hausa

Presupposition Incorporation in Adverbial Quantification

In this paper, we present a critique of the uniform treatment of nominal and adverbial quantification in van der Sandt’s binding theory of presuppositions. We develop an alternative account of adverbial quantification framed in terms of Beaver’s reconstruction of Karttunen’s satisfaction theory. This account provides a simpler characterization of adverbial quantification that does not require r...

Adverbial Quantification over (Interrogative) Complements

Apparently QV involves quantification by a sentential adverb over something. A theory of QV needs to answer, first, what the adverb actually quantifies over, and second, why this quantification has the distribution it does. This paper rejects Berman’s 1991 theory of QV and supports that of Utpal Lahiri (1991, 1998). Berman takes QV to be quantification over the WH variable in the interrogative,...

In Place – Out of Place: Focus in Hausa

For a speaker of an accent language it is completely natural to mark grammatical focus consistently on all syntactic categories. In light of this regularity, the linguist’s conclusion that focus must be marked universally is not far-fetched. If the linguist is typologically interested, he will assume that focus is marked at different grammatical levels in different languages. Thus, a language m...

The Role of Situations and Presuppositions in Restricting Adverbial Quantification

This thesis proposes a novel solution to the problem of determining the domain of an adverbial quantifier. Adverbial quantification crucially differs from nominal quantification in that, in general, no indication of the domain of quantification is syntactically given in an adverbially quantified sentence. As a result, two questions about adverbial quantifier domains naturally arise. First, what...

Adverbial Verbs and Adverbial Compounds in Tsou: A Syntactic Analysis