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Quantification into Non-Truth-Denoting Objects
Yimei Xiang
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Abstract

In the standard theory of quantification, quantification must be applied into a truth-denoting expression. However, in natural languages, certain expressions allow for interpretations where the quantifier operates over a non-truth-denoting object, yielding readings that involve quantification into a question (QiQ) or a determiner phrase (QiD). This paper offers an analysis that uniformly accounts for both QiQ and QiD, while preserving the conventional assumptions about the semantics of quantifiers, questions, and DPs.

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Proceedings of the 42nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Shweta Akolkar, Amber Galvano, Akil Ismael, Kang Franco Liu, and Line Mikkelsen
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