Chinese Quantifier Scope, Concord, and Lexical Resource Semantics

TL;DR

We give a concord-based analysis of Chinese quantifier scope, formulated in Lexical Resource Semantics (LRS), addressing two open questions: what determines scopal readings, and why the universal quantifier mei (“every”) sometimes obligatorily co-occurs with the universal adverb dou. The account adapts two principles from Richter and Sailer’s (2004) analysis of negative concord, expanded with a new quantifier order constraint, to generate a coherent answer to both questions.

How to Cite

@inproceedings{nkhp:2022,
  author = {Niu, Jingcheng and Kang, Xinyu and Hohmann, Pascal and Penn, Gerald},
  title = {Chinese quantifier scope, concord, and {Lexical Resource Semantics}},
  booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Online (Nagoya\slash Tokyo)}},
  editor = {Müller, Stefan and Winckel, Elodie},
  OPTissn = {1535-1793},
  doi = {10.21248/hpsg.2022.6},
  publisher = {University Library},
  address = {Frankfurt/Main},
  pages = {102--119},
  year = {2022}
}