TY  - CHAP
A1  - Endriss, Cornelia
A1  - Hinterwimmer, Stefan
T1  - The influence of tense in adverbial quantification
T2  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure / Ishihara, S., M. Schmitz and A. Schwarz (eds.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; Vol. 1
N2  - We argue that there is a crucial difference between determiner and adverbial quantification. Following Herburger [2000] and von Fintel [1994], we assume that determiner quantifiers quantify over individuals and adverbial quantifiers over eventualities. While it is usually assumed that the semantics of sentences with determiner quantifiers and those with adverbial quantifiers basically come out the same, we will show by way of new data that quantification over events is more restricted than quantification over individuals. This is because eventualities in contrast to individuals have to be located in time which is done using contextual information according to a pragmatic resolution strategy. If the contextual information and the tense information given in the respective sentence contradict each other, the sentence is uninterpretable. We conclude that this is the reason why in these cases adverbial quantification, i.e. quantification over eventualities, is impossible whereas quantification over individuals is fine.
KW  - adverbial quantification
KW  - covert variables
KW  - domain restriction
KW  - quantificational variability
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10045
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112346
UR  - http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/840/
SP  - 121
EP  - 150
PB  - Univ.-Verl.
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -