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those that double as VP adverbs. About the QAD sentences Elle a trop mangé de carottes cet année ‘She ate too many carrots this year’ and Il a très peu gagné d’argent ‘He made very little money’, he says, These sentences might seem to be derivable from Elle a mangé [ NP trop de carottes] and Il a gagné [ NP très peu d’argent] via some rule moving trop and très peu out of the object NP and across the past participle. However, all the elements that would be subject to such a rule trop, peu, très peu, beaucoup, assez, pas mal, autant, tellement etc. occur independently as adverbs (Kayne (1975: 29)) He provides the following examples to illustrate his point. (14) a. Elle a trop applaudi she has too clapped ‘She clapped too much’ b. Il t’a très peu apprécié he you-has very little appreciated ‘He appreciated you very little’ (Kayne (1975:29, his (57)) We can see that this pattern is repeatable with all the quantifiers within the QAD class. (15) a. Elle a beaucoup applaudi b. Elle a très peu applaudi c. Elle a assez applaudi que... d. Elle a pas mal applaudi e. Elle a autant applaudi que.. 24
f. Elle a tellement applaudi que.. If QAD is indeed movement of the adnominal determiner to a preverbal position, there must be some semantic or syntactic feature of adnominal quantifier that causes it to move. However, if we restrict our attention to the adnominal quantifiers of the language, disregarding other independent uses that they might have elsewhere in the grammar, there is no way to define the class of QAD quantifiers to the exclusion of other adnominal determiners. Plein ‘a lot’ (lit. ‘full’) exemplifies this point. It is, for all intents and purposes, syntactically and semantically identical to beaucoup when beaucoup is used adnominally: it selects a de phrase complement and means roughly ‘a lot’. (16) J’ai lu plein de livres I have read full of books ‘I read a lot of books’ But plein does not independently occur as a preverbal adverb (17), and correspondingly, it does not quantify at a distance (18). (17) *J’ai plein applaudi I have full applauded (18) *J’ai plein lu de livres I have full read of books Analyses that tie the movement of a quantifier to some syntactic or semantic property it has in its adnominal use, or to some property the de phrase has, cannot explain why beaucoup can quantify at a distance and plein cannot. 25
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BCP 1 s ({x : ∃e(Reading(e,I,x) &
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c. *Marie beaucoup a lu de livres M
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. la perte doit moult desplaire the
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(28) Peu portent fruit et assez fue
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‘There are a lot of countries in
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The second argument that Split [+Te
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3.3.3 Summary In the study of the e
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(40) J’ai beaucoup mangé de pomm
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(45) a. il confessa qu’il avoit b
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(1) pas ‘not’, point ‘not’,
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in this way to account for another
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(10) is entirely true for Québec F
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avoid confusion, I therefore re-nam
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quantifiers Q ′ leads to the cons
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and cannot combine with a one-place
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As first noticed by Obenauer (1976)
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4) The frequency adverb souvent ‘
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Nevertheless, Rizzi and Obenauer’
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forward: The polyadic elements comb
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quantifiers in Québec French, I st
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(Doetjes (2007)). (52) L’été pa
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I proposed that the elements that l
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, Marianne. 1987.
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Doetjes, Jenny. 1997. Quantifiers a
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Labelle, Marie and Daniel Valois. 2
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Rowlett, Paul. 1996. Negative Confi
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