February 25, 2000 (Friday)

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Roger Schwarzschild (Rutgers University)

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My talk will have to do with specific indefinites. For background on that topic, I suggest the first half of the Kratzer paper (not the latter part on events and causation). This reading is less necessary for someone who has read any one of: the Reinhart, Abusch, or Matthewson papers or the chapter in Winter where choice-functions are introduced. My talk will also have to do with quantifier domains. Section 6 and especially section 7 of the paper by Stanley and Gendler-Szabo (http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~tapuz/onquan.pdf) should cover the relevant facts.

• Abusch, D. 1993-4. The Scope of Indefinites. Natural Language Semantics, 2:83-135
• Kratzer, A. 1998. Scope or Pseudoscope: Are there Wide-Scope Indefinites? In Susan Rothstein (ed.), Events and Grammar, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pages 163-196
• Matthewson, L. 1999. On the Interpretation of Wide-Scope Indefinites. Natural Language Semantics, 7.1:79-134
• Reinhart, T. 1997. Quantifier Scope: How Labor Is Divided between QR and Choice Functions. Linguistics & Philosophy 20(4):335-97
• Stanley, J. and Z. Gendler-Szabó. to appear. On Quantifier Domain Restriction. forthcoming in Mind and Language
• Winter, Y. 1998. Flexible Boolean Semantics: Coordination, Plurality and Scope in Natural Language. PhD thesis, Utrecht University