Open AccessEvidence for the linearization-based theory of semantic composition
Author(s) -
Shûichi Yatabe
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2007.19
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , quantifier (linguistics) , raising (metalworking) , node (physics) , computer science , composition (language) , order (exchange) , theoretical computer science , mathematics , mathematical economics , artificial intelligence , linguistics , programming language , philosophy , economics , physics , geometry , finance , quantum mechanics
The result of questionnaire studies are presented which shows(i) that conjuncts are scope islands in Japanese and (ii) that left-noderaising can nullify such scope islands. This finding confirms the theoryadvanced in Yatabe (2001), in which semantic composition isalmost entirely carried out within order domains, and arguably contradictsthe theory proposed in Beavers and Sag (2004), which introduces a mechanismcalled Optional Quantifier Merger to deal with the fact that right-node raisingand left-node raising can have semantic effects.