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(15) a. Preverbal subjects:
Ningú coneix tots els llibres
Nobody knows all the books
b. CLLD elements:
a) 'There is no person knowing every book'
b) *'Every book is such that no person knows it'
A ningú el coneix tothom
To nobody him-knows everybody
a) 'There is no person being known by everybody'
b) *'Everybody is such that he knows nobody'
Similarly, existential and proportional quantifiers never have narrow scope in the
following cases: 155
(16) Preverbal subjects:
a. Un/algun metge es cuida de tots els malalts
A /some doctor takes-care of all the patients
b. Molts/la majoria d'estudiants llegeixen tots els llibres
Many /most students read all the books
155 For some reason, existential quantifiers of the type
'some NP or other' and numerals like 'at least one' can have
narrow scope no matter how higher up from the other quantifier
they are:
(i) Some book or other, I think every student has read
(ii) At least one car, I guess everybody can afford
Since this narrow scope reading is not predictable from the
general clause-boundedness constraint for scope interactions, we
leave it as irrelevant. Therefore, in (0.a) and (0.a) this type
of reading, which is usually obtained with a special intonation
pattern, should be disregarded. Interestingly, (0.a) only allows
this reading if the preposition optionally accompanying the CLLD
object is absent.
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