Title: A Mechanism to Restrict the Scope of Clause-Bounded Quantifiers in 'Continuation' Semantics
Abstract: This paper presents a formal mechanism to properly constrain the scope of negation and of certain quantificational determiners to their minimal clause in continuation semantics framework introduced in Barker and Shan (2008) and which was subsequently extended from sentential level to discourse level in Dinu (2011). In these works, type shifting is employed to account for side effects such as pronominal anaphora binding or quantifier scope. However, allowing arbitrary type shifting will result in overgenerating interpretations impossible in natural language. To filter out some of these impossible interpretations, once the negation or the quantifiers reach their maximal scope limits (that is their minimal clause), one should force their scope closing by applying a standard type shifter Lower. But the actual mechanism that forces the scope closing was left underspecified in previous work on continuation semantics. We propose here such a mechanism, designed to ensure that no lexical entries having the scope bounded to their minimal clause (such as not, no, every, each, any, etc) will ever take scope outside.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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