Two accounts of scope availability and semantic underspecification
Alistair Willis, Suresh Manandhar · 1999
We propose a formal system for representing the available readings of sentences displaying quantifier scope ambiguity, in which partial scopes may be expressed.We show that using a theory of scope availability based upon the functionargument structure of a sentence allows a deterministic, polynomial time test for the availability of a reading, while solving the same problem within theories based on the well-formedness of sentences in the meaning language has been shown to be NP-hard.