Discontinous Quantifiers, Primarily in French
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23748458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Genovéva Puskás (0000-0002-1264-0043, University of Geneva, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-29 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118358733.wbsyncom019 |
| OpenAlex | W4254457060 |
| ISBN | 9781118358733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
Discontinuous quantification refers to the phenomenon in which a quantified DP is spelled out as a discontinuous phrase, the quantified expression being stranded from its restriction. The phenomenon includes so‐called floating quantification as well as quantification at a distance and binominal quantifiers . The phenomenon is mostly described for French, not necessarily because it is more productive in this language – it turns out, in fact, that many languages exhibit more or less productive instances of the similar constructions – but mainly because, from an early stage in the theory, there has been a continuous, if not intense, interest for the question among researchers working on French. Discontinuous quantification raises several questions that have been addressed in slightly different perspectives by many authors. The first one revolves around the nature of the quantificational element itself. The broad alternative appears to be the following: either the quantifier syntactically modifies in some way the DP that is interpreted as its restriction, or it functions as an adverbial element that modifies some larger constituent and gets interpreted as associated with the DP. A second question, which clearly follows from the first, is the relation between the quantifier and its restriction. Again, proposals range from an analysis in terms of a movement analysis that strands the DP from the quantifier to co‐indexation with the DP via a null element. Discontinuous quantification can be extended, especially in French, to discontinuous wh ‐expressions. The relevance of interrogative discontinuous structures lies in the fact that they unveil interesting intervention effects, which also shed light on the nature and internal structure of discontinuous quantified expressions.
Adverbial · Element (criminal law) · Epistemology · Expression (computer science) · Interrogative · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Phrase · Quantifier (linguistics) · Range (aeronautics) · Syntax · Computer Science · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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