TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fanselow, Gisbert
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
A1  - Philipp, Mareike
T1  - Assessing the availability of inverse scope in German in the covered box paradigm
JF  - Glossa : a journal of general linguistics
N2  - This paper presents the results of a novel experimental approach to relative quantifier scope in German that elicits data in an indirect manner. Applying the covered-box method (Huang et al. 2013) to scope phenomena, we show that inverse scope is available to some extent in the free constituent order language German, thereby validating earlier findings on other syntactic configurations in German (Rado & Bott 2018) and empirical claims on other free constituent order languages (Japanese, Russian, Hindi), as well as recent corpus findings in Webelhuth (2020). Moreover, the results of the indirect covered-box experiment replicate findings from an earlier direct-query experiment with comparable target items, in which participants were asked directly about the availability of surface scope and inverse scope readings. The configuration of interest consisted of canonical transitive clauses with deaccented existential subject and universal object QPs, in which the restriction of the universal QP was controlled for by the context.
KW  - inverse scope
KW  - covered-box
KW  - free constituent order
KW  - German
KW  - experimental semantics
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5766
SN  - 2397-1835
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 24
PB  - Open Library of Humanities
CY  - London
ER  -