Tibor Kiss (tibor@heidelbg.ibm.com)
Thu, 22 Aug 1996 08:58:49 +0200
Dear Collegues, I am currently working on scope problems and have a question related to the famous Bach/Peters sentences, which are also extensively discussed in May (1985 -- Logical Form, MIT): (1) [Every pilot who shot at it_i]_j hit [some MIG that chased him_j]_i My question is: Is it really uncontroversial that the sentence in (1) shows the crossed reading indicated by the indexing? And: Is it really better than the alledgedly nonsensical (2)? (2) [His_i wife]_j saw [her_j husband]_i Second question: Who else is currently working on a. scope phenomena b. a treatment of scope without making use of QR or any substitute of QR (like Cooper-Storage)? Best regards and thanx for any help, Tibor P.S.: I suggest that you contact me directly instead of replying to the list. If wanted, I can provide a summary, then. =========================================================================== Dr. Tibor Kiss IBM Germany Institute for Logic and Linguistics Vangerowstr. 18 69115 Heidelberg +49-6221-594483 (phone) +49-6221-593200 (fax) tibor@heidelbg.ibm.com ============================================================================
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