1994
On Quantifier Floating
English Linguistics
- 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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- ID information
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- DOI : 10.9793/elsj1984.11.100
- ISSN : 1884-3107
- ISSN : 0918-3701
- SCOPUS ID : 85008135639