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  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Endriss, Cornelia
A1  - Hinterwimmer, Stefan
T1  - Direct and indirect aboutness topics
N2  - We propose a definition of aboutness topicality that not only encompasses individual denoting DPs, but also indefinites. We concentrate on the interpretative effects of marking indefinites as topics: they either receive widest scope in their clause, or they are interpreted in the restrictor of an overt or covert Q-adverb. We show that in the first case they are direct aboutness topics insofar as they are the subject of a predication expressed by the comment, while in the second case they are indirect aboutness topics: they define the subject of a higher-order predication – namely the set of situations that the respective Q-adverb quantifies over.
KW  - Aboutness Topics
KW  - Indefinites
KW  - Wide Scope
KW  - Left-Dislocation
KW  - Quantificational Variability Effects
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19640
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Endriss, Cornelia
A1  - Hinterwimmer, Stefan
T1  - Direct and indirect abountness topics
Y1  - 2007
SN  - 978-3-939469-88-9
ER  - 
TY  - THES
A1  - Endriss, Cornelia
T1  - The double scope of quantifier phrases
T3  - Linguistics in Potsdam - 17 
Y1  - 2002
SN  - 978-3-935024-47-1
SN  - 1616-7392
PB  - Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - THES
A1  - Endriss, Cornelia
T1  - Quantificational Topics : a Scopal Treatment of Exceptional Wide Scope Phenomena
T2  - Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Y1  - 2009
SN  - 978-90-481-2302-5
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2303-2
VL  - 86
PB  - Springer Netherlands
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  -