A Parallel Interpretation of Floated Quantifiers and Adverbials
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In this paper we propose a method to compositionally interpret the meanings of floated quantifiers on the basis of Categorial Grammar (Carpenter 1997) and Davidsonian semantics (Davidson 1980). In this approach, floated quantifiers are accounted for semantically as a kind of adverbial phrase so that we do not need any special syntactic operations, such as quantifier raising, in order to interpret their meanings. The approach also explains 'pragmatic implication' introduced by floated quantifiers on the basis of the whole-part relationship between sets.
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