ADVERBS OF QUANTIFICATION AND GENERICITIY
Abstract
Proceedings of IATL 17
The main empirical claim made in the paper is that in characterizing habitual
sentences (e.g., A bird flies), a relational default Q-adverb that
quantifies over individuals co-occurs with a default frequency adverb that
binds a time-variable. Correspondingly, such sentences express generalizations
over individuals (to which a habitual property is attributed), rather than
generalizations over episodic events. I then argue that adverbial quantification
over individuals must be directly represented at LF, rather than derived
from quantification over events. I will further show that adverbial quantification
over events can be adequately represented within a framework that dispenses
with event-variables.
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