A Weak Theory of Strong Readings

Below the examples I have given paraphrases of the readings we are concerned with here, and which seem the most natural ones for these examples. To see that these are remarkable , let us briefly recapitulate what the interpretat ion of a wel l behaved adnominal quantifier should look like . Syntactical ly a quant ifier l ike some in (1) has as its sister a nominal argument, which for lack of commitment I refer to as the N-argument. The resulting NP (DP) is s ister to a verbal projection, labeled the V-argument in the remainder of this paper. Ideal ly , we would like the meaning of N to provide the first argument the restrictor of the quantifier , and V to provide the second the nuclear scope in the semantics . An ideal mapping would thus be as in (4) .