Quantifiers as functional heads: A study of quantifier float in Hebrew
Quantifiers as functional heads: A study of quantifier float in Hebrew
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作为功能中心的量词：希伯来语量词浮动的研究
DOI：
10.1016/0024-3841(91)90069-h
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发表时间：
1991
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1.1
通讯作者：
U. Shlonsky
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作者：
U. Shlonsky
本文认为，现代希伯来语中的量词 all 是 Abney (1987) 及相关著作意义上的功能中心词，它选择了以定语限定词为中心的 DP 补语。我们希望证明这种分析比将 Q 作为说明符的分析（Abney 1987）和 Sportiche（1988）的分析（根据其中 tous（“全部”）与基数中的 NP（或 DP）相连）具有优势。关于量词浮动现象，所讨论的希伯来语数据相当有力地支持了Sportiche (1988)的基本见解，即量词浮动包括将NP (DP)主语从D结构VP内部位置向左移动，留下量词。然而，我们主张对这一想法的实施进行一些修改。特别地，我们假设主语在量词上所经历的向左移动是通过 QP 的说明符进行的，QP 的说明符是量词的头部。我们的基本主张如 (l) 所示，其中 Q 左侧出现一个空类别。
This paper argues that the quantifier all in Modern Hebrew is a functional head in the sense of Abney (1987) and related work, which selects a DP complement headed by the definite determiner. We hope to demonstrate that such an analysis has advantages over analyses which take Q to be a specifier (Abney 1987) and over an analysis such as that of Sportiche (1988) according to which tous (‘all’) is adjoined to NP (or DP) in the base. Concerning the phenomenon of Quantifier Float, the Hebrew data discussed support rather strongly the fundamental insight of Sportiche (1988), namely that Quantifier Float consists of moving an NP (DP) subject leftwards, from a D-structure VP-internal position, leaving behind the quantifier. We argue, however, for some modification in the implementation of this idea. In particular, we hypothesize that leftward movement undergone by the subject over the quantifier proceeds through the specifier of QP, of which the quantifier is a head. Our basic claim is illustrated in (l), where an empty category appears to the left of Q.