• Language and Information
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.1-22
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• 2003

Quantifier floating is one of the much studied phenomena in natural languages where quantifying expressions may appear in places other than their original prenominal one. Its presence is especially prominent in languages such as Korean that allow more or less free word order. We find that, in addition to what is described in the literature, there are other remarkable regularities in the way the language allows quantifiers to “float” with respect to various constructions including coordination, relative clauses, and embedded clauses. These regularities are captured syntactically in a combinatory categorial grammar (CCG) framework for Korean. We also show how to derive semantic representations for Korean quantifier floating in the same CCG framework.

• Language and Information
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.57-75
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• 2009

English floating quantifiers (FQ) are both limited and complex in the sense that they are introduced by a limited set of words, all, both, and each, and display free distributional possibilities. This paper provides a non-movement approach to the syntax of English floating quantifier constructions. The non-movement analysis we develop here is different from stranding movement analyses in that all the FQs are base-generated while the linkage with their antecedent refers to grammatical features such as SUBJ and PRD. The analysis avoids the postulation of abstract levels as well as empty elements in capturing the flexibility of English FQ constructions, making the grammar of English simpler.

• Language and Information
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.1-15
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• 2001

Floating quantifiers(FQs) in English exhibit both universal and language specific proper- ties This paper discusses how such syntactic and semantic characteristics can be explained in terms of a constraint-based, lexical approach to the floating quanti- fer construction within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar(HPSG). Based on the assumption and FQs are base-generated VP modifiers, this paper proposes and account in which the semantic contribution of FQs consists of a "lexically retrieved" universal quantifier taking scope over the VP meaning.P meaning.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.73-86
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• 1990

This study aims to give a syntactic and semantic analysis of the phe- nomenon of Quantifier Floating in the framework of Generalixed Cate- gorial Grammar. Floated quantifiers like neys-i as in Hakayngtul-i neys-i swul-ul masyessta are syntactically analyxed as VP modifiers(VP/VP), and semantically as involving nominalixed properties. Related forms like neys(NP/NP) and neys-ul(TV-TV) are also given rigorous syntactic and semantic analysis. A successful anaysis sheds light on the possiblity of using Categorial Grammar, which is subject to adjacency principle, for the (computer) processing od Korean.

• Language and Information
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.59-73
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• 2015

In the traditional Locality approach to floating numeral quantifiers in Korean and Japanese, two subject positions have been identified for external merge, one in Spec, vP and the other in Spec, TP (Saito 1985, Miyagawa 1989, 2013, Miyagawa and Arikawa 2007, etc.). In this paper, I show that the two external merger positions of the subject are unnecessary in the grammar of Korean and Japanese. Rather, by accepting the minimalist assumption of the VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis (Kitagawa 1986, Sportiche 1988, Koopman and Sportiche 1991), we are better able to explain a variety of bewildering phenomena that arise in scrambling contexts of FNQ-constructions.