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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