Cyclic scope and processing difficulty in a Minimalist parser

A common view in the theoretical literature is that quantifier raising (QR) is a clause-bounded operation. But in a paper published in Glossa, Wurmbrand (2018) argues that (i) QR is not clause-bounded, and the apparent clause-boundedness of QR is due to the human parser’s difficulty in processing ex...

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Main Authors: Robert Pasternak, Thomas Graf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2021-01-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/1209