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Quantifier Scope in English, Chinese, and Japanese.
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Kuno, Susumu; Takami, Ken-ichi; Wu, Yuru – Language, 1999
Critiques Aoun and Li's (1993) syntactic analysis of quantifier-scope interpretations in English, Chinese, and Japanese, showing serious theoretical problems with their results and proposing a quantifier-scope analysis that avoids those problems. The proposed expert system considers several important considerations and arrives at a composite…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Grammar, Japanese
Why Surface Syntactic Structure Reflects Logical Structure as Much as It Does, But Only That Much.
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McCawley, James D. – Language, 1999
Examines parallelisms between surface structure and logical structure and why those parallelisms do not extend farther than they do. If syntactic deep structures are identified with logical structures, an appropriate cyclic principle guarantees that cyclic rules will apply so that large-scale parallelisms exist between surface syntactic structures…
Descriptors: Grammar, Logic, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)