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G61.3340 Seminar on Scope:
Issues, Readings

Prof. Anna Szabolcsi

Fall 1999

Methodology:
• Labov: What is a linguistic fact? 1975 (find a copy in Sociolx Fieldmethods reading package)
• Baltin: Negation and quantifier scope, 1975.
• Stabler & Szabolcsi: Scope. In Fromkin, ed. Linguistics, Blackwell, to appear.

Descriptive generalizations regarding scopal diversity:

Asymmetrical scope and branching:


English, Chinese:
• Liu: Scope and dependency in English and Chinese. UCLA PhD 1990, John Benjamins 1997. -- brief summary of English facts in Beghelli--Ben-Shalom--Szabolcsi 1997, pp. 38-43.
Hungarian:
• Szabolcsi: Strategies for scope taking. In Szabolcsi, ed. 1997. -- data: pp. 118-121, 127-133, 145-150.

Each/every and negation:

English:
• Beghelli--Stowell: Distributivity and negation. In Szabolcsi, ed. 1997.


Japanese:
• Sakaguchi, Distributivity in English and Japanese. PhD, UCLA. 1998.

Various QPs in matrix and embedded interrogatives (English):


• Szabolcsi: Quantifiers in pair-list readings. In Szabolcsi, ed. 1997. -- data: pp.320-323, 328-329.

Indefinites, in contrast to quantifiers:

English:
• Ruys: The scope of indefinites. PhD, OTS, 1992.
• Kratzer: Scope or pseudoscope? are there wide scope indefinites? In Rothstein, ed., Events and Grammar. 1998.
• Reinhart: Quantifier scope: how labor is divided between QR and choice functions. Linguistics and Philosophy 20. 1997.
Lillooet:
• Matthewson: On the interpretation of wide scope indefinites. Natural Language Semantics 7. 1999.

Formal semantic background:

• Szabolcsi: Background notions in lattice theory and generalized quantifiers. In Szabolcsi,ed. 1997.
• Beghelli et. al: Variation, distributivity, and the illusion of branching, Section 1: pp. 29-38. In Szabolcsi, ed. 1997.
• Kamp--Reyle, From Discourse to Logic. 1993.
• Szabolcsi, Strategies for scope taking. 1997.

Syntax:

• Szabolcsi: The syntax of scope. In Baltin--Collins, Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory. To app.
• Hornstein: Logical Form from GB to minimalism. 1995.
• Kayne: Overt vs. covert movement. Syntax 1, 1998.
• Brody--Szabolcsi, Overt scope: A case study in Hungarian. Ms, in progress.

Metrical phonology:

• Hunyadi: Hungarian Sentence Prosody and Universal Grammar (some chapters of). To app.

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