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38<br />

(2.41) LF head-raising in (2.40):<br />

DP<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

✟ ✟✟✟✟✟✟<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍ ❍<br />

D<br />

CP<br />

❍ ❍<br />

❍<br />

tukuy<br />

all ✟ ✟✟✟✟✟✟<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍ ❍<br />

CP<br />

DP j<br />

<br />

✏<br />

<br />

✏ ✏✏✏✏✏✏✏✏✏✏ Mayta-q plaza-pi t j planta-sqa-n-ta<br />

Mayta-gen plaza-loc t j plant-nm-3sg-acc<br />

✏ ✏<br />

<br />

planta<br />

plant<br />

Returning to (2.34) <strong>and</strong> (2.35), in which <strong>the</strong> quantifier appears adjacent to its<br />

associated nominal, <strong>the</strong>re are two related issues to be addressed by any proposal<br />

regarding <strong>the</strong>ir LF structure <strong>and</strong> mechanism <strong>of</strong> interpretation. First, <strong>the</strong> quantifier<br />

is apparently interpreted outside <strong>of</strong> its S-structure clause, in violation <strong>of</strong> broad<br />

cross-linguistic evidence for <strong>the</strong> clause-boundedness <strong>of</strong> strong quantifiers. Second,<br />

<strong>the</strong> associate <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> quantifier at S-structure (apparently just <strong>the</strong> nominal ‘plant’)<br />

seems to be different from <strong>the</strong> associate <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> quantifier at <strong>the</strong> interpretive level<br />

(apparently <strong>the</strong> entire phrase ‘plant that Mayta planted’). I mention here briefly<br />

some possible approaches to each <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se issues. A detailed study <strong>of</strong> this problem<br />

is <strong>the</strong> topic <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> next chapter.<br />

Basilico [1996] addresses <strong>the</strong> second <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se points (<strong>the</strong> LF disassociation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

apparent Determiner from its apparent sister nominal) by suggesting that a universal<br />

quantifier associated with an internal head may not be a Determiner at all, but<br />

ra<strong>the</strong>r a verbal operator. This he proposes in response to <strong>the</strong> existence in Mooré<br />

[p.524] <strong>and</strong> Navajo [p.529] <strong>of</strong> certain examples in which an internal head appears<br />

to be associated with a universal quantifier (contra his generalization that this configuration<br />

is impossible). These examples look very much like (2.34). Basilico’s<br />

verbal operator <strong>the</strong>ory is compatible with his <strong>the</strong>ory <strong>of</strong> IHRs because it identifies

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