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In this paper we will be concerned primarily with ambiguities of the type exhibited in (1), where OR stands for Object-related Reading and ER for Event-related Reading. These readings have been extensively discussed and thoroughly analyzed in Krifka (1990).
This joint paper is a natural extension of our individual efforts to clarify the status of ORs and ERs in grammatical theory, as reported on in Honcoop (1992) and, especially in connection to quantification at a distance in French, Doetjes (1994). We would like to thank the following persons for insightful discussion on the subject matter of this paper, as well as related issues: Filippo Beghelli, Dorit Ben-Shalom, Rose-Marie Déchaîne, Astrid Ferdinand, Jacqueline Guéron, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Elena Herburger, Helen de Hoop, Hans-Georg Obenauer, Tetsuya Sano, Barry Schein, Tim Stowell, Henriette de Swart, and Elisabeth Villalta. Thanks are also due to the people who attended any one of the three different talks on related matters in Paris in February and December of 1994, the audience attending the TIN-dag in Utrecht in 1994, as well as to the audience at the syntax/semantics colloquium which was held in the Spring of 1995 at UCLA, and the audience at WCCFL XIV, which was held in March 1995 at USC. Crit Cremers, Teun Hoekstra and Anna Szabolcsi deserve special mention for their ongoing support and constructive criticism. Many thanks furthermore to Frits Beukema for correcting our English. But most of all, we would like to express our gratitude to Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, who encouraged us to collaborate on this paper, and who at various stages actively participated in the project herself. Needless to say, if it wasn’t because of her, this paper could not have been written in the first place. We owe an obvious debt to her. During his stay at the linguistics department at UCLA in Winter and Spring of 1995, the research of the second author was partially supported by a grant of the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO), which is hereby gratefully acknowledged. Finally, the second author would like to thank the people at the Linguistics department at UCLA for their warm hospitality. For any remaining errors, we are entirely to blame.
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Doetjes, J., Honcoop, M. (1997). The Semantics of Event-Related Readings: A Case for Pair-Quantification. In: Szabolcsi, A. (eds) Ways of Scope Taking. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 65. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5814-5_8
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