Derivation of temporal preposition meanings in LFG ' sglue - language

This paper investigates the deductive derivation of the semantics of temporal preposition phrases in English in the framework of the glue-language approach as developed for LFG. The meanings of temporal preposition phrases can be given as functions which we call temporal generalized quantiiers, as developed in a companion paper using a more traditional syntax-semantics interface. We show that the \glue-language" approach has certain advantage for this task, avoiding some non-standard operations in the-calculus used in the alternative, more traditional approach. In particular, we show how to derive scope ambiguities within quantiiers in the modiied phrase and quantiier in the modifying phrase, not previously considered in the literature. We propose some modiications to the glue-language approach needed to facilitate the required derivations