Floating Quantifiers and Lexical Specification of Quantifier Retrieval
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Floating quantifiers (FQs) in English exhibit both universal and language-specific properties, and this paper shows that such syntactic and semantic characteristics can be explained in terms of a constraint-based, lexical approach to the construction within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Based on the assumption that FQs are base-generated VP modifiers, this paper proposes an account in which the semantic contribution of FQs consists of a "lexically retrieved" universal quantifier taking scope over the VP meaning.
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