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

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Ditransitive structures in English
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Basic issue: canonical structure and the UTAH (Baker 1988)
• 1.2.1 Derivational approaches to English dative alternation
• 1.2.2 Non-derivational approaches
• 1.2.3 Lexicalist approaches
• 1.3 Quantifier scope as a diagnostic for the structure
• 1.4 Conclusion
• Chapter 2 Slavic ditransitives
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Object order in Slavic ditransitives and the nature of short scrambling
• 2.2.1 Derivational approaches
• 2.2.2 Scrambling as movement and binding facts
• 2.2.3 Scrambling without movement
• 2.2.4 Non-derivational and mixed approaches
• 2.3 Verb classes and different canonical object orders
• 2.4 Quantifier scope as a diagnostic
• 2.5 Conclusion
• Chapter 3 Scope changing mechanisms and scrambling
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Quantifier Raising (QR)
• 3.2.1 Setting the scene: Inverse Linking and QR landing site (May 1977, 1985, Larson 1985, May and Bale 2006)
• 3.2.2 Restrictions on QR: Economy
• 3.2.2.1 Scope Economy (Fox 1995)
• 3.2.2.2 Syntactic Economy (Bruening 2001)
• 3.2.2.3 Evidence for Shortest: Superiority effects
• 3.2.3 QR and Coordinate Structure Constraint (Ross 1967)
• 3.2.4 Against QR: scope as a result of Case-driven movement (Hornstein 1995)
• 3.3 Scope reconstruction
• 3.4 Scope interpretation in scrambling languages
• 3.4.1 Scope rigidity
• 3.4.2 Scope rigidity in DOCs
• 3.5 Conclusion
• Chapter 4 Quantifier scope and scrambling: off-line experiments
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Theoretical basis for object order and coordination variables
• 4.2.1 Scope rigidity (object order variable)
• 4.2.2 QR or scope reconstruction (coordination variable)
• 4.3 Experiment 1: the correlation between scope interpretation and object order – Polish verbs with Recipient vs. Bene-/Malefactive datives
• 4.3.1 Applicatives and QR
• 4.3.2 Aims and predictions
• 4.3.3 Participants, materials and procedure
• 4.3.4 Results and discussion
• 4.4 Experiment 2: the correlation between quantifier scope interpretation object order and coordination – verbs with Recipient and Benefactive datives
• 4.4.1 Aims and predictions
• 4.4.2 Participants, materials and procedure
• 4.4.3 Results and discussion
• 4.5 Experiment 3: the correlation between quantifier scope interpretation, quantifier order, object order and animacy
• 4.5.1 The scope of indefinites: specificity/referentiality in the choice-function approach
• 4.5.2 Aims and predictions
• 4.5.3 Participants, materials and procedure
• 4.5.4 Results and discussion
• 4.6 Conclusion
• Chapter 5 Quantifier scope processing: off-line and online visual disambiguation experiments
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Tested assumptions: syntactic structure and the processing of meaning
• 5.2.1 Two classes of ditransitive verbs: object order and coordination
• 5.2.2 Disambiguation methods and the processing of meaning
• 5.3 Experiment 4 (off-line): the correlation between quantifier scope interpretation, quantifier order, and coordination in two classes of ditransitive verbs
• 5.3.1 Aims and predictions
• 5.3.2 Participants, materials and procedure
• 5.3.3 Results and discussion
• 5.4 Experiment 5 (RTs): the correlation between quantifier scope interpretation, quantifier order, and coordination with two classes of ditransitive verbs
• 5.4.1 Aims and predictions: syntactic theory
• 5.4.2 Aims and predictions: processing of meaning
• 5.4.3 Experiment design
• 5.4.3.1 Participants and materials
• 5.4.3.2 Procedure
• 5.4.4 Results and discussion: syntactic theory
• 5.4.5 Results and discussion: processing theory
• 5.5 Conclusion
• Chapter 6 Toward an analysis
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Consequences for scope rigidity and scope reconstruction
• 6.2.1 Scope rigidity and scope freezing (class 1 verbs)
• 6.2.2 Quantifier scope and scope reconstruction (class 1 verbs)
• 6.3 Main findings and their consequences for the structure
• 6.3.1 Class 1 verbs
• 6.3.2 Class 2 verbs
• 6.3.3 Free IO datives
• 6.4 Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Streszczenie
• Appendix A: Exp1 and Exp2 materials
• Appendix B: Exp3 materials
• Appendix C: Exp4 and Exp5 materials
• List of figures
• List of tables
• References
• Series Index