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This paper is concerned with semantic reflexes of scope. Accordingly, an expression a will be said to be in the scope of an expression ß iff the interpretation of a is affected by the semantic contribution of ß. In what follows I will focus on cases where both expressions are DPs, though examples where α is a predicate, a modal or an adverb of quantification will also figure in the discussion.
The material in this paper was presented at a colloquium at UCLA in April, 1996, and at the Workshop on Reference and Anaphorical Relations held at Konstanz in June 1996.1 am grateful to the audiences of these talks for useful comments and discussion, and to the organizers of the Konstanz workshop for producing a truly great event. I am particularly indebted to Klaus von Heusinger without whose gentle persuation this paper would not have been written. I am also grateful to an anonymous reviewer for useful comments and requests for clarification.
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Farkas, D. (2000). Scope Matters. In: von Heusinger, K., Egli, U. (eds) Reference and Anaphoric Relations. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3947-2_5
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