On the distribution of scope ambiguities in Polish

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22130508
AutoresKlaus Abels (0000-0001-7663-0242, University College London), Dagmara Grabska (0000-0002-8473-5068, University College London)
Ano2022
Volume7
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2022-11-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlossa a journal of general linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2397-1835 • E-ISSN: 2397-1835
EditoraOpen Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.16995/glossa.8170
OpenAlexW4298021305
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas30

Polish, an SVO language with relatively free constituent order, has a scope extending mechanism of quantifier raising that shows remarkable similarities to quantifier raising in English. The paper shows experimentally that SVO and OVS structures in Polish are scopally ambiguous. Furthermore, ditransitive structures are scopally rigid when the indirect object precedes the direct object but ambiguous when the direct object precedes the indirect object (Łęska 2019), a fact which we show to hold independently of whether the indirect object is realized as a DP or a PP. The phrase structure of ditransitive VPs in Polish mirrors the geometry that Janke & Neeleman (2012) proposed for English ditransitives, though the category of the indirect object again plays no role. Pulling these findings together, we adapt Bruening’s (2001) analysis of scope freezing in English to our own analysis of Polish.Our findings contradict the idea that free word order languages lack quantifier raising and/or reconstruction for scope. The results are, however, fully compatible with multifactorial approaches to word order and scope

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