Understanding Scope Ambiguity

ISBN-13: 9783639104820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 152 str.

Catherine Anderson

Opis

Ambiguous sentences that contain more than one quantified expression present challenges to linguistic theories of quantification and to psycholinguistic theories of real-time sentence comprehension. Based on the results of a set of experiments investigating the comprehension of doubly-quantified sentences and sentences that contain ellipsis, this book argues that the interpretation of quantified sentences is determined at Logical Form (LF), that LF is a syntactic level of re­presentation not constrained by semantics, and that LF representations are crucial to interpretive decisions made by the human sentence processing mechanism. The book will be of interest to linguists, psycholinguists, and anyone who studies quantification, the syntax-semantics interface and the role of abstract linguistic structure in sentence comprehension.

O autorze

Catherine Anderson earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics from
Northwestern University. Her
research investigates the role of abstract linguistic structure
in real-time sentence
comprehension. She is presently employed as an Assistant
Professor in the
Department of Linguistics and Languages at McMaster University in
Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada.