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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.1 The Semantics of DPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.2 The Semantics of Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1.2.1 Adverbial Quantifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2 Quantification at a Distance in Standard French . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.1 Previous Analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.1.1 Movement Analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.1.2 Adverbial Analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 2.1.3 Previous Adverbial Analyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 2.2 Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 2.2.1 The Unreducibility of BCP SF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 2.2.2 A Compositional Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 2.2.3 Consequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 2.2.4 A Short Note About Mass Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 2.3 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 3 Quantification at a Distance in Québec French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 3.1 Dialectal Variation in QAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 3.2 Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 3.2.1 The Reducibility of BCP QF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 3.3 The Source of Dialectal Variation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 2
3.3.1 Split DPs in Old French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 3.3.2 Split DPs in Middle French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 3.3.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 3.4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 4 Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 4.1 Negative Quantifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 4.1.1 Dialectal Variation in Negative Concord . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 4.2 Split-Combien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 4.2.1 Intervention by Polyadic Quantifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 4.2.2 Other Interveners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 4.3 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 3
Page 1: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angele
Page 5 and 6: CHAPTER 1 Introduction This thesis
Page 7 and 8: concrete example of the contributio
Page 9 and 10: The thesis is organized as follows:
Page 11 and 12: As pointed out by Keenan & Westerst
Page 13 and 14: following definitions for beaucoup
Page 15 and 16: ‘I slept a lot’ b. Je suis beau
Page 17 and 18: (21) Let s 1 ∈ N such that 0 < s
Page 19 and 20: involves unreducible binary quantif
Page 21 and 22: dently, are islands for movement. A
Page 23 and 24: a. ...parce qu’une longue bibliog
Page 25 and 26: f. Elle a tellement applaudi que..
Page 27 and 28: 2.1.2.3 Multiplicity of Events Anot
Page 29 and 30: . Elle vient d’avoir beaucoup d
Page 31 and 32: ‘Jean has owned a lot of horses
Page 33 and 34: sis [i.e. movement analysis-H.B], s
Page 35 and 36: object. Other more complicated move
Page 37 and 38: Only the (internal) arguments of V
Page 39 and 40: Semantic incorporation has been pro
Page 41 and 42: Based on a study of the scope prope
Page 43 and 44: QAD sentences with multiple events
Page 45 and 46: . Quatre mille navires sont passés
Page 47 and 48: She proposes that nouns contain two
Page 49 and 50: (Doetjes (1997: 271, her (40)) Seco
Page 51 and 52: As shown below, like souvent, rarem
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(79) a. J’ai rarement apprécié
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2.2.1 The Unreducibility of BCP SF
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(where s = 1 or t = 1, and s or t =
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phrases in object position are comb
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. *J’ai beaucoup écrit ma thèse
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As mentioned above, a major problem
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She attributes this exceptional vio
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(106) Different students answered d
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(2) a. Dans cette cassette, il a be
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(10) J’ai beaucoup appelé de mè
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(16) Theorem 2: For all s ∈ N, BC
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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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