Speaker: Daniel Margulis (MIT)
Title: Quantifier float with overt restriction
Date and time: Wednesday May 10, 1-2pm
Location: 32-D461
Abstract:
Example (1) demonstrates quantifier float. The quantifier each intuitively quantifies over individual parts of the subject they, but the two are not linearly adjacent. The Hebrew quantifier kol has to be overtly restricted, even when it floats: (2) is ungrammatical without exad ‘one’ or a full NP like student.
1. They have each read a different book.
2. hem kar’u kol *(exad) sefer axer
they read each one book other
“They each read a different book.”I will discuss several syntactic and semantic puzzles posed by the construction in (2) and their implications for the analysis of quantifier float.