Two Accounts of Scope Availability and Semantic Underspeciication
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We propose a formal system for representing the available readings of sentences displaying quan-tiier scope ambiguity, in which partial scopes may be expressed. We show that using a theory of scope availability based upon the function-argument structure of a sentence allows a deter-ministic, polynomial time test for the availability of a reading, while solving the same problem within theories based on the well-formedness of sentences in the meaning language has been shown to be NP-hard.
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