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We might also wonder if there is any way of reducing the size of Obenauer’s analysis. Obenauer has a separate postulate for almost every fact he is trying to account for, and some of his conditions are specific to the QAD construction. I will return to the Empty Category analysis in section 2.2.1, when I present my own analysis, and I’ll argue that, if desired, the EC analysis could be adapted to give the correct results, provided the semantics of the empty category is given in the right way. I will additionally show that we can derive the interpretative facts that Obenauer observes based on general principles of compositional semantic interpretation, and that stipulating construction-specific conditions is not necessary. In the next section, I start looking at the question of providing a compositional semantic analysis for QAD structures by examining the proposals of Heyd (2003) and Mathieu (2002, 2004). 2.1.3.2 The Incorporation Analysis In this section, I present the main formal semantic analysis of QAD in the literature, what I will henceforth refer to as the Incorporation analysis. This analysis is really a proposal about the semantics of de phrases in French; however, it has implications for the analysis of QAD. Versions of this analysis are presented in Heyd (2003) and Mathieu (2002; 2004). The incorporation analysis claims that the de phrases in French undergo semantic incorporation: a semantic process that accompanies syntactic incorporation in languages like Inuktiut (West-Greenlandic) (44) (44) Amajaraq eqalut -tur -p -u -q Amajaraq.ABS salmon eat IND [-tr] 3SG ‘Amajaraq has eaten a salmon’ (Van Geenhoven (1998); cit. Mathieu (2004)) 38
Semantic incorporation has been proposed to occur independently of syntactic incorporation in a number of languages, mostly to account for the semantic behaviour of ‘bare’ nominals. For example, Van Geenhoven proposes that English bare plurals (45) are semantically, but not syntactically, incorporated. (45) I read books Heyd and Mathieu provide a number of arguments for the claim that de phrases are semantically incorporated. Their most important one comes from the inability of de phrases to take scope higher than the position in which they appear. We saw in the previous section that de phrases in QAD constructions are scopally inert; however, as Heyd and Mathieu show, this is a property of de phrases that is independent of QAD. For example, de phrases may never take scope over negation. (46) J’ai pas lu de lives I have not read of books ‘I did not read any books’ not ‘There were books that I did not read’ Similarly, de phrases may only be interpreted de dicto in Split-Combien sentences with intensional verbs. (47) Combien as-tu cherché de livres? how many have-you sought of books ‘How many books did you look for?’ An incorporation analysis of de phrases is suggested in the works of Heyd (2003) for de phrases that appear under negation and Mathieu (2002; 2004) for de phrases that appear in the Split-Combien construction. 39
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quantifiers Q ′ leads to the cons
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As first noticed by Obenauer (1976)
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4) The frequency adverb souvent ‘
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forward: The polyadic elements comb
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quantifiers in Québec French, I st
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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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