Adverbial Quantification over (Interrogative) Complements
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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, as suggested by the form of (1b) and (2b). In section 3 I will give arguments against this, mostly novel. I will then introduce Lahiri’s theory, which takes QV to be quantification over the semantic object of the embedding verb—namely, a complete set of partial
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