English Quantifiers: Logical Structure and Linguistic Variation

1. Acknowledgments
2. Introduction: Logical Structure and Linguistic Variation
1. Objectives
2. Preliminaries
3. The Logical Structure Controversy
4. The Problem of Linguistic Variation
1. The Unified-Analysis Approach
2. Data Collection
1. The Informant
2. The Interview
3. Reliability and Validity
5. Plan of the Book
3. Chapter 1: The Underlying Structure of Pre-Determiner Quantifiers
1. Introduction
2. A Counter-Example to the Usual Analysis
3. A Second Counter-Example
1. Not-Transporation
2. Negatives and Quantifiers
3. Quantifiers under Not-Transporation: an Asymmetry
4. Possible Solutions
1. Possible Solution I: Change Negation
2. Possible Solution II: Quantifiers from a Higher Sentence
5. A Side Excursion: The NT Argument in a More Powerful Model
4. Internal Structure of the Higher S
1. Relative Clause Structure
2. Quantifiers as Verbs
5. Independent Motivation
4. Chapter 2: The Underlying Structure of Post-Determiner Quantifiers
1. Introduction
2. True Adjectives, Pre-Determiner Q, and Post-Determiner Q
1. Examples Involving Negation
2. Noun-Phrase Identity Examples
3. Miscellaneous Examples
3. An Over-Predicate Deep Structure
4. Conclusion
5. Chapter 3: Evidence from Idiolect Variation
1. Introduction
2. Quantifier Dialects
3. Until
4. Tag Questions: did they?
5. Until and did they? with Quantifiers
6. Conclusion
6. Chapter 4: Rule Order, Randomness, and Syntactic Idiolect Variation
1. Introduction
2. The Interaction of Quantifier-Lowering with Tag-Question
3. The Interaction of Tag-Question with Not-Transporation
4. Interaction among dialects
5. Attested, Possible, and Impossible Dialects
6. Conclusion
7. Chapter 5: Idiolect Variation and Linguistic Change
1. Introduction
2. The Scope Problem
3. The Primacy-Relation Solution
4. Counter-Examples
1. Counter-Example I
2. Counter-Example II
5. Conclusion: Rejection of the Primacy-Relation Solution
6. Towards a Solution
8. Appendix A: A Rule-Ordering Paradox
1. Introduction
2. QL is Cylic
1. Reflexive
2. Reflexive and Raising
3. Conclusion
3. QL is Last-Cyclic
1. Not-Transporation
2. NP-Identity Rules
3. Conclusion
4. Possible Escapes
1. Making QL Cyclic: The NT Argument
2. Making QL Cyclic: The NP-Identity Argument
3. A New Sort of Reflexive
9. Appendix B: The Deep Structure of "Both"
1. Introduction
2. "Both" as a Quantifier
1. Surface-Structure Parallels
2. Deeper Parallels
3. "Both" as a Non-Quantifier
1. Lakoff-Peters Examples
2. Miscellaneous Examples
3. Predicate "Both"
4. Proposed Solution
5. Confirming Evidence
1. Surface-Structure Parallels
2. Deeper Parallels
1. Equi-NP Deletion
2. Not-Transportation
6. Conclusion and Speculation
10. Bibliography
11. Index