TY  - JOUR
A1  - Endriss, Cornelia
A1  - Hinterwimmer, Stefan
T1  - The influence of tense in adverbial quantification
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - We argue that there is a crucial difference between determiner and adverbial quantification. Following Herburger [2000] and von Fintel [1994], we assume that determiner quantifiers quantify over individuals and adverbial quantifiers over eventualities. While it is usually assumed that the semantics of sentences with determiner quantifiers and those with adverbial quantifiers basically come out the same, we will show by way of new data that quantification over events is more restricted than quantification over individuals. This is because eventualities in contrast to individuals have to be located in time which is done using contextual information according to a pragmatic resolution strategy. If the contextual information and the tense information given in the respective sentence contradict each other, the sentence is uninterpretable. We conclude that this is the reason why in these cases adverbial quantification, i.e. quantification over eventualities, is impossible whereas quantification over individuals is fine.
KW  - Adverbial Quantification
KW  - Covert Variables
KW  - Domain Restriction
KW  - Quantificational Variability
Y1  - 2004
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8409
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
IS  - 1
SP  - 121
EP  - 151
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Endriss, Cornelia
A1  - Hinterwimmer, Stefan
T1  - Quantificational Variability Effects with plural definites
BT  - quantification over individuals or situations?
N2  - In this paper we compare the behaviour of adverbs of frequency (de Swart 1993) like usually with the behaviour of adverbs of quantity like for the most part in sentences that contain plural definites. We show that sentences containing the former type of Q-adverb evidence that Quantificational Variability Effects (Berman 1991) come about as an indirect effect of quantification over situations: in order for quantificational variability readings to arise, these sentences have to obey two newly observed constraints that clearly set them apart from sentences containing corresponding quantificational DPs, and that can plausibly be explained under the assumption that quantification over (the atomic parts of) complex situations is involved. Concerning sentences with the latter type of Q-adverb, on the other hand, such evidence is lacking: with respect to the constraints just mentioned, they behave like sentences that contain corresponding quantificational DPs. We take this as evidence that Q-adverbs like for the most part do not quantify over the atomic parts of sum eventualities in the cases under discussion (as claimed by Nakanishi and Romero (2004)), but rather over the atomic parts of the respective sum individuals.
KW  - Adverbial Quantification
KW  - Situations
KW  - Tense Semantics
KW  - Adverbs of Frequency
KW  - Adverbs of Quantity
Y1  - 2006
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19512
ER  -