The Pragmatics of Quantifier Scope: A Corpus Study
Scott AnderBois, Adrian Brașoveanu, Robert S. Henderson · 2012
One of the most well-studied phenomena in natural language semantics has long been the question of what readings are possible in various types of sentences with multiple quantifiers. Semanticists have generally been concerned with developing theories to capture the range of possible readings for such sentences. This is what Higgins & Sadock (2003) have dubbed the problem of scope