Contextually restricted quantification in Basque
Urtzi Etxeberria · 2009
Abstract Despite the wide acceptance this analysis has had in the formal semantic tradition, there are languages that seem to lack the standard construction exemplified in (1). Matthewson (2001), based on her analysis on St’át’imcets (a Lillooet Salish language) quantifiers, proposes that quantification in natural language must proceed in two steps, rather than in one: first, the D combines 1 I would like to thank Ricardo Etxepare, Fernando Garcia Murga, Anastasia Giannakidou, Brenda Laca, Utpal Lahiri, Luisa Martí, Lisa Matthewson, Louise McNally, Javier Ormazabal, Myriam Uribe- Etxebarria, Aritz Irurtzun, Maia Duguine as well as the organizers and participants of the conference QP Structure, Nominalization & the Role of DP (Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken) for comments and discussion. Thanks also to two anonymous reviewers for useful comments. Finally, thanks to Anastasia Giannakidou and Monika Rathert for their patience and guidance. All remaining errors are my own, of course.