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Scope of comparative quantifiers
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Scope of comparative quantifiers
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an experimental investigation
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Oho
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Atsushi
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1984-
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Atsushi Oho
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Kristen
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Kristen Syrett
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chair
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Ken
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Grimshaw
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Jane Grimshaw
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2015
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2015-10
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2015
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This thesis examines the scope taking property of comparative quantifier phrases (CQPs) in English. It has been widely acknowledged that scope of CQPs in non-subject position is frozen at the surface position: CQPs must take narrow scope relative to a subject quantifier. Experimental evidence provided in this thesis, however, suggests that CQPs in non-subject position can take wide scope over a quantifier in subject position. Given the findings, I argue that scope of non-subject CQPs is not absolutely frozen at the surface position and the scope taking property is significantly influenced by contextual factors. The experimental results show that participants are able to access the inverse scope reading when a test sentence is given under a context in which the surface scope interpretation is not compatible with general world knowledge. The results also indicate that the scope taking property of CQPs with respect to a subject quantifier is not different from that of plural numerals, which are assumed to take wide scope over a subject quantifier. The findings raise the possibility that the widely believed scope rigidity of CQPs is governed not by the grammar, but by extragrammatical factors: taking wide scope is strongly disfavored but crucially not ungrammatical. This possibility can be extended to other quantifiers and languages that have shown scope freezing phenomena. I take Japanese, a scope rigid language, as an example and discuss the defreezing effect of the contextual manipulation.
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Linguistics
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English language--Quantifiers
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Grammar, Comparative and general--Quantifiers
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (vii, 58 p. : ill.)
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Atsushi Oho
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ETD graduate
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Atsushi
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2015-08-31 17:34:38
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Atsushi Oho
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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