Addressing an issue that has puzzled the linguistics community
for many years, this book offers a novel approach to the
exceptional wide scope behaviour of indefinites. It is the first
book explicitly dedicated to exceptional wide scope phenomena. Its
unique approach offers an explanation for the fact that it is only
a proper subset of the indefinites that shows this exceptional wide
scope behaviour.
The author draws a careful distinction between genuine and
apparent scope readings, a distinction that is usually not taken
care of and has thus led to certain confusions. In particular, it
is argued that functional readings have to be kept strictly apart
from non-functional ones and that all proposals that use functional
mechanisms to explain the phenomena at hand face severe
problems.
The existing body of literature on the main issues of the book
is thoroughly reviewed. This makes the book well suited as
background literature for graduate seminars on those topics.
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