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Endriss, Cornelia ; Hinterwimmer, Stefan
The influence of tense in adverbial quantification
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We argue that there is a crucial difference between determiner and adverbial quantification. Following Herburger [2000] and von Fintel [1994], we assume that determiner quantifiers quantify over individuals and adverbial quantifiers over eventualities. While it is usually assumed that the semantics of sentences with determiner quantifiers and those with adverbial quantifiers basically come out the same, we will show by way of new data that quantification over events is more restricted than quantification over individuals. This is because eventualities in contrast to individuals have to be located in time which is done using contextual information according to a pragmatic resolution strategy. If the contextual information and the tense information given in the respective sentence contradict each other, the sentence is uninterpretable. We conclude that this is the reason why in these cases adverbial quantification, i.e. quantification over eventualities, is impossible whereas quantification over individuals is fine.
| Freie Schlagwörter (englisch): | Adverbial Quantification , Covert Variables , Domain Restriction , Quantificational Variability | |
| RVK - Regensburger Verbundklassifikation | ER 300 | |
| Collection | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2004) 01 | |
| Institut 1: | Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Institut 2: | Extern | |
| DDC-Sachgruppe: | Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik | |
| Dokumentart: | b Aufsatz | |
| ISBN: | 1866-4725 | |
| Quelle: | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 1 | |
| Sprache: | Englisch | |
| Erstellungsjahr: | 2004 | |
| Publikationsdatum: | 07.09.2006 | |
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erschienen in: Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; Working papers of the SFB 632. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2004. - (ISIS ; 1) URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8237 zugleich in Printform erschienen im Universitätsverlag Potsdam. |
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