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.
- 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.
- Szabolcsi: Strategies for scope taking. In Szabolcsi, ed. 1997. -- data: pp. 118-121, 127-133, 145-150.
Descriptive generalizations regarding scopal diversity:
Asymmetrical scope and branching:
- English, Chinese:
- Hungarian:
- Beghelli--Stowell: Distributivity and negation. In Szabolcsi, ed. 1997.
- Sakaguchi, Distributivity in English and Japanese. PhD, UCLA. 1998.
Each/every and negation:
- English:
- Japanese:
- Szabolcsi: Quantifiers in pair-list readings. In Szabolcsi, ed. 1997. -- data: pp.320-323, 328-329.
Various QPs in matrix and embedded interrogatives (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.
- Matthewson: On the interpretation of wide scope indefinites. Natural Language Semantics 7. 1999.
Indefinites, in contrast to quantifiers:
- English:
- Lillooet:
- 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.
Formal semantic background:
- 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.
Syntax:
- Hunyadi: Hungarian Sentence Prosody and Universal Grammar (some chapters of). To app.
Metrical phonology:
Last Modified: July 23, 2000
