Formal Approaches to Semantic Microvariation: Adverbial ...

from the top of the lambda prefix to a position just above the event argument." (p. 10).
I assume Restrict’ since it gives no special status to the event argument, but Chung &
Ladusaw’s “notational assumption" would also be compatible with my proposal.
Under this analysis, the de morpheme can be viewed as the spell-out of the application
of Restrict’. Assuming Restrict’, the derivation of the QAD sentence is straightforward.
(93) J’ai beaucoup lu de livres
BCP SF
s,t ({< e,x >: Reading (e,I,x) & Book(x)})
BCP SF
s,t
{< e,x >: Reading (e,I,x) & Book(x)}
I
{< y,e,x >: Reading(e,y,x) & Book(x)}
{< x,y,e >: Reading(e,y,x)}
{x : Book(x)}
2.2.2.1 An Empty Category Analysis
The analysis that I have presented above is essentially an incorporation analysis; I
have just used the semantics for incorporation given in Chung & Ladusaw (2004) (for
Chamorro) instead of van Geenhoven (1998) (for Inuktitut). This is attractive since,
as discussed in Mathieu (2004), de phrases, like syntactic incorporation, are possible
only from a direct object position. Thus, the incorporation analysis accounts for the
impossibility of having QAD across prepositional phrases (94) and the inability of de
phrases to appear in subject position (95).
(94) a. *J’ai beaucoup parlé à de filles
I have a lot talked to of girls
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