Quantifier Domain Selection and Pseudo-Scope
Kai von Fintel · 1999
come from the work done in recent years at MIT by Lisa Matthewson (as already mentioned), Philippe Schlenker, Julie Legate, and Uli Sauerland. I thank Irene Heim, Lisa Matthewson, Orin Percus, Philippe Schlenker, and Jason Stanley for illuminating discussions about this material. At this point, I see this talk as a report on the state of the art, exploring an intriguing possible connection, but I do not claim substantial intellectual property rights. Mistakes are certainly mine, achievements are probably not. 1. CONTEXT-DEPENDENCE OF QUANTIFIERS Consider a statement Everybody is having a good time. I assume that you understand the sentence well enough. Now assume also that you are omniscient with respect to people having a good time: you know for each person that ever lived and for each time up to now whether or not that person was having a good time at that time. Under these conditions, you may still be in doubt about the truth of the statement for at least two reasons: first,