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| − | In (i)a the quantifier ''tous'' immediately precedes the NP ''les | + | In (i)a the quantifier ''tous'' immediately precedes the NP ''les étudiants'' it quantifies, but in (i)b ''tous'' has 'floated' off, as it were, into the sentence. Sportiche (1988) has claimed that ''tous'' in examples such as (i)b is stranded in the (VP-internal) D-structure subject position. |
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| − | * Sportiche,D. 1988. ''A Theory of Floating Quantifiers and its Corrolaries for Constituent Structure,'' Linquistic Inquiry 19-3 | + | * Sportiche,D. 1988. ''A Theory of Floating Quantifiers and its Corrolaries for Constituent Structure,'' Linquistic Inquiry 19-3. |
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Latest revision as of 08:26, 20 August 2019
Floating quantifier is a quantifier that is not immediately near the NP it quantifies. French tous (all) is the exemplary case:
(i) a Tous les étudiants ont lu ce livre
All the students have read that book
b Les étudiants ont tous lu ce livre
In (i)a the quantifier tous immediately precedes the NP les étudiants it quantifies, but in (i)b tous has 'floated' off, as it were, into the sentence. Sportiche (1988) has claimed that tous in examples such as (i)b is stranded in the (VP-internal) D-structure subject position.
Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
References
- Sportiche,D. 1988. A Theory of Floating Quantifiers and its Corrolaries for Constituent Structure, Linquistic Inquiry 19-3.
