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Peer-reviewed
1994

On Quantifier Floating

English Linguistics
  • Masahiro Akiyama

Volume
11
Number
First page
100
Last page
122
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.9793/elsj1984.11.100

This paper aims to study Quantifier Floating in English from the viewpoint of principles and parameters theory. It is shown that a floating quantifier is an adverb. This paper further proposes that a covert counterpart of SE-anaphor studied by Reinhart and Reuland (1991) appears as the complement of a floating quantifier. A SE-anaphor must be assigned 0-features by I. In order to satisfy this requirement, a floating quantifier phrase adjoins to the subject. From this, a variety of properties of Quantifier-Floating follow.∗. © 1994, The English Linguistic Society of Japan. All rights reserved.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.11.100
ID information
  • DOI : 10.9793/elsj1984.11.100
  • ISSN : 1884-3107
  • ISSN : 0918-3701
  • SCOPUS ID : 85008135639

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