LINGUIST List 5.234  Sun 27 Feb 1994  Disc: Quantifiers  Editor
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quantifiers  Date: Sun, 27 Feb 94 15:57:05 esquantifiers From:
Carpenter <> Subject: quantifiers  This message was originally
constructed in response to David Gil's posting about why people
try to come up with 'complex' theories of quantification.
Hopefully, this will be interesting to a wider audience than
just those who are following Gil's thread. The points address
those raised in Gil's original message.  Point 1) There is an
added complication with 'two men love three women' in that you
have plural noun phrases. This leads to interactions of scope
with distributive and collective readings. The 'standard wisdom'
for these can be found in the non-theory-bound paper of Davies
(_Linguistics and Philosophy_ 1989, 293--324), "Three examiners
marked six scripts", the Heim, Lasnik and May _Linguistic
Inquiry_ paper on reciprocity (1991), containing a GB version,
or I could send anyone who's