Quantifier Scope as a Diagnostic for the Position of Arguments of Ditransitive Verbs
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Quantifier Scope as a Diagnostic for the Position of Arguments of Ditransitive Verbs

  1. 362 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Quantifier Scope as a Diagnostic for the Position of Arguments of Ditransitive Verbs

About this book

The study presented in this book aimed to test the argument structure of ditransitive verbs in Polish with the use of quantifier scope interpretation. Since these verbs typically allow for relatively free object order, it is not clear whether any of the object orders is basic or if they constitute separate underlying structures. The study reports the results of five experiments testing acceptability of scope interpretation of Polish quantified objects in two object orders, using variables such as coordination, to reveal which scope changing mechanism is responsible for ambiguity. The results showed that only the DO-IO order allowed for scope ambiguity, however, to a different degree depending on the semantic class of the verb. This indicates that the merge position of objects is contingent upon that factor.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright information
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 Ditransitive structures in English
  7. Chapter 2 Slavic ditransitives
  8. Chapter 3 Scope changing mechanisms and scrambling
  9. Chapter 4 Quantifier scope and scrambling: off-line experiments
  10. Chapter 5 Quantifier scope processing: off-line and online visual disambiguation experiments
  11. Chapter 6 Toward an analysis
  12. Conclusion
  13. Summary
  14. Streszczenie
  15. Appendix A: Exp1 and Exp2 materials
  16. Appendix B: Exp3 materials
  17. Appendix C: Exp4 and Exp5 materials
  18. List of figures
  19. List of tables
  20. References
  21. Index of Names
  22. Subject Index