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Cyclic scope and processing difficulty in a Minimalist parser
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 6, No 1 (2021); 8 ; 2397-1835 (2021)
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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 extraclausal QR; and (ii) the relative difficulty of extraclausal QR depends on the size of the embedded clause from which QR takes place. She then proposes a theory of scope processing in which parsing Logical Form (LF) movement is costly for the human parser, which in conjunction with independently motivated assumptions about A′-movement generates the desired results. In this paper, we accept Wurmbrand’s descriptive observations and proposed syntax but offer an alternative, rigorously defined metric of scope processing difficulty that makes precise quantitative predictions. Our proposal is formalized with Minimalist Grammars (Stabler 1997) and expands recent work by Kobele et al. (2013), among others, that uses this formalism to account for numerous processing phenomena. Our metric correctly handles Wurmbrand’s observations as well as cases that are problematic for her account, and points the way toward an explanatory theory of scope processing.
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computational linguistics; formal parsing; mathematical linguistics; Minimalist Grammars; quantification; scope; scope processing; semantics; syntax
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URL: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1209
https://www.glossa-journal.org/jms/article/view/1209
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Vermenschlichte Tiere und der Unterschied zwischen menschlichen Sprachen und Naturwissenschaften ... : Humanized animals and the inherent differences between human languages and natural sciences ...
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Vermenschlichte Tiere und der Unterschied zwischen menschlichen Sprachen und Naturwissenschaften ; Humanized animals and the inherent differences between human languages and natural sciences
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In: 2020, 8 S. (2020)
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Metrical Grids and Generalized Tier Projection
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2020)
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Multi-Input Strict Local Functions for Tonal Phonology
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2020)
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Multi-Input Strictly Local Functions for Templatic Morphology
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2020)
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A Hidden Markov Model for the Linguistic Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript
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In: Mathematical and Computational Applications ; Volume 24 ; Issue 1 (2019)
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Learnability and Overgeneration in Computational Syntax
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2019)
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ABA and the combinatorics of morphological features
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 3, No 1 (2018); 15 ; 2397-1835 (2018)
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