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Quantifier domain restriction
Kai von Fintel
April 4, 2014
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Ernie’s charge
“I think it would be great if we could open with you and you simply runa workshop for a few hours introducing people to issues aboutquantifier domain restriction.”
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20 years ago
Kai von Fintel. 1994. Restrictions on quantifier domains. Amherst, MA:University of Massachusetts PhD thesis.
I’m old.
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20 years ago
Kai von Fintel. 1994. Restrictions on quantifier domains. Amherst, MA:University of Massachusetts PhD thesis.
I’m old.
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Why it’s good that Craige is here
Roberts, Craige. 1995. Domain restriction in dynamic semantics. InEmmon Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer & Barbara H. Partee(eds.), Quantification in natural languages (Studies in Linguistics andPhilosophy (SLAP) 54), 661–700. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
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Why it’s good that Zoltán is here
Jason Stanley & Zoltán Gendler Szabó. 2000. On quantifier domainrestriction. Mind and Language 15(2/3). 219–261.
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Some (but not all) relevant literature
• Westerståhl 1984• von Fintel 1994, 1998, 1999• Roberts 1995• Stanley & Szabó 2000• Matthewson 2001• Stanley 2002• Martí 2003• Breheny 2003• Percus 2004• Kratzer 2004, 2011• Schwarz 2009, 2012• Elbourne 2013
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Thus spake Lewis
“Part of the ordinary meaning of any idiom of quantification consists ofsusceptibility to restrictions; and that restrictions come and go with thepragmatic wind.”
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Thus spake Lewis
“Part of the ordinary meaning of any idiom of quantification consists ofsusceptibility to restrictions; and that restrictions come and go with thepragmatic wind.”
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Nevins, Pesetsky & Rodrigues 2009
“Lewis’s pragmatic wind blows across the Maici River in Brazil just as itblows everywhere else that human speakers use language.”
apropos a claim by Everett that a certain item in Pirahã isn’t a truequantifier since it doesn’t quantify over everything
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Nevins, Pesetsky & Rodrigues 2009
“Lewis’s pragmatic wind blows across the Maici River in Brazil just as itblows everywhere else that human speakers use language.”
apropos a claim by Everett that a certain item in Pirahã isn’t a truequantifier since it doesn’t quantify over everything
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Everybody
(1) The workshop was a complete success.Everybody had a grand time.
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Other “idioms of quantification”
(2) John has to be in his office. modals
(3) Kai rarely eats with chopsticks. adverbs of quantification
(4) Ernie knows that dinner will be late. attitudes
(5) My son’s snowman is tall. adjectives
(6) What did you do last night? Oh, I only watched the X-Files. only
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Plot
1. Domain variables2. Situation variables3. Domain widening
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Radical pragmatics
When S says everybody had a grand time, the proposition expressed is theobviously false one that everybody in the entire world had a grand time.
H will figure out that the proposition meant is that everybody at theworkshop had a grand time.
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Real life
One recent example of this kind of approach, plus a critique and a reply:
• David Braun. 2012. An invariantist theory of ‘might’ might be right.Linguistics and Philosophy 35(6). 461–489.
• Igor Yanovich. 2013. Invariantist ‘might’ and modal meaningchange. Linguistics and Philosophy 36(2). 175–180.
• David Braun. 2013. Invariantism about ‘can’ and ‘may’ (as well as‘might’). Linguistics and Philosophy 36(2). 181–185.
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Problem
(7) The workshop was a complete success.Everybody in the entire world had a grand time.
Why doesn’t H figure out what was meant by uttering the obviouslyfalse claim that everybody in the world had a grand time?
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(8) You never ever take out the garbage!
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Locating the restriction
How does Everybody had a grand time get to express that everybody atthe workshop had a grand time?
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Big decision
Is the restriction effected by material in the LF or via a parameter ofinterpretation?
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If in LF, then what and where?
• syntactic ellipsis• silent anaphor
• types:
• type ⟨e, t⟩ – a set• type ⟨s, et⟩ – a property• type ⟨set, set⟩ – a subset selection function, variant: choice function• type s (situation argument)
• location:
• sister of nominal argument• sister of determiner
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Locality
(9) Everybody had a grand time even though not everybody couldcome.
(10) EverybodyC1 had a grand time even though not everybodyC2 couldcome.
C1: everybody at the workshopC2: everybody invited to the workshop
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Locality
(9) Everybody had a grand time even though not everybody couldcome.
(10) EverybodyC1 had a grand time even though not everybodyC2 couldcome.
C1: everybody at the workshopC2: everybody invited to the workshop
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Locality
(9) Everybody had a grand time even though not everybody couldcome.
(10) EverybodyC1 had a grand time even though not everybodyC2 couldcome.
C1: everybody at the workshopC2: everybody invited to the workshop
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More examples on locality
(11) Sweden is a funny place. Every tennis player looks like Björn Borg, andmore men than women watch tennis on TV.But most people really dislike foreign tennis players. Westerståhl
(12) The pig is grunting, but the pig with floppy ears is not grunting.Lewis
(13) Yesterday the dog got into a fight with a dog. The dogs weresnarling at each other for half an hour, I’ll have to see to it that thedog doesn’t get near that dog again. McCawley
(14) Everybody is asleep and is being monitored by a research assistant.Soames
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Bindability
(15) Only one talk was so exciting that no listener fell asleep.after Heim
(16) Only one talk λx. x was so exciting that noC(x) listener fell asleep.
C: a function from talks to attendees
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Bindability
(15) Only one talk was so exciting that no listener fell asleep.after Heim
(16) Only one talk λx. x was so exciting that noC(x) listener fell asleep.
C: a function from talks to attendees
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Bindability
(15) Only one talk was so exciting that no listener fell asleep.after Heim
(16) Only one talk λx. x was so exciting that noC(x) listener fell asleep.
C: a function from talks to attendees
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More examples on bindability
(17) Whenever we have a party, everybody brings something. Cresswell
(18) Every girl finished every task. Kratzer
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Intensionality
von Fintel 1998:
(19) When John went to Prague, he studied some Czech beforehand. Itwas quite possible that nobody would speak Welsh.
Stanley & Szabó 2000:
(20) If there were a few more bottles on the shelf, John would not havepurchased every bottle.
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Location of the restriction: D or N?
• von Fintel 1994: C is an argument of the quantifier• Stanley & Szabó 2000, Stanley 2002: C is a sister of the noun
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Anaphora
(21) We’re talking about a certain villageMost people regularly scream. They are crazy.
Reading 1: the people in the village are crazyReading 2: the people in the village who scream are crazy
Assumption: “Ideally, one would wish to say that cross-sententialanaphora of this sort requires antecedents that are constituents (nodes)of a preceding logical form.”
Response: that’s a rather old-fashioned syntax-centric conception ofanaphora, which more plausibly should be governed by salience
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Anaphora
(21) We’re talking about a certain villageMost people regularly scream. They are crazy.
Reading 1: the people in the village are crazyReading 2: the people in the village who scream are crazy
Assumption: “Ideally, one would wish to say that cross-sententialanaphora of this sort requires antecedents that are constituents (nodes)of a preceding logical form.”
Response: that’s a rather old-fashioned syntax-centric conception ofanaphora, which more plausibly should be governed by salience
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Superlatives
(22) We’re talking about life at CornellThe tallest person is nice.= ’the tallest (person at Cornell) is nice”
Response: since *-est* is a quantifier, it carries its own C variable, whichcan effect the restriction to Cornell individuals
cf. Heim 1999, Gajewski 2010
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Superlatives
(22) We’re talking about life at CornellThe tallest person is nice.= ’the tallest (person at Cornell) is nice”
Response: since *-est* is a quantifier, it carries its own C variable, whichcan effect the restriction to Cornell individuals
cf. Heim 1999, Gajewski 2010
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A distinction between adjectives
Subsective adjectives:
(23) Talking about a dinner party vs. talking about a formal concertSmith is a remarkable violinist.= Smith is remarkable as a violinist compared to other dinnerparty/formal concert violinists.
Privative adjectives:
(24) Talking about American academiaEvery fake philosopher is from Idaho. after Breheny̸= every fake (American philosopher) is from Idaho
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Which determiners can be restricted?
There are determiners that don’t seem to be hospitable to domainrestriction. Relevant data in Cooper 1996, Matthewson 2001, Schwarz2012.
(25) Last night I threw a party and a bunch of linguists and philosophers came.#All/most linguists got drunk.
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(26) There were 100 linguists and 100 philosophers at the party. We askedeveryone, and we found out that …Every linguist went to New Zealand for Christmas last year.All/most of the linguists went to New Zealand for Christmas lastyear.#All/most linguists went to New Zealand for Christmas last year.
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Earlier data
Data due to Croft and Krifka (cf. von Fintel 1994: fn. 25, p. 178):
(27) There are lions and tigers in the cage.Every lion has a mane. can be restrictedA lion has a mane. unrestrictedLions have manes. unrestrictedA lion always has a mane. unrestricted
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Non-nominal quantifiers
(28) Kai rarely eats with chopsticks.
What is the analogue of the Nominal Restriction Doctrine withadverbial quantifiers?
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Summary so far
The proposal in my dissertation looks pretty good.
• C variable as (inevitable) argument of quantifiers• can be complex (to allow binding)• can be intensional (to allow control by intensional operators)
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II. Situation variables
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Kratzer
• Kratzer, Angelika. 2004. Covert quantifier restrictions in naturallanguages. Slides from a talk at Palazzo Feltrinelli in Gargnano.
• Kratzer, Angelika. 2014. Situations in natural language semantics.In Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy,Spring 2014 edn.
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Kratzer’s arguments
• C-variable unattested as overt pro-form• Salient sets of individuals can’t be picked up
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Why is C never overt?
Languages don’t ever seem to surface the C variable as an overtpronominal element.
Response: well … Matthewson 2001 argues that a contextually suppliedchoice function can be the source of domain restriction and that itsurfaces in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish) QPs.
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Why is C never overt?
Languages don’t ever seem to surface the C variable as an overtpronominal element.
Response: well … Matthewson 2001 argues that a contextually suppliedchoice function can be the source of domain restriction and that itsurfaces in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish) QPs.
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Salience not enough
A salient group of smilers:
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Finding values for the variables
Me: EverybodyC is smiling.
! Why is my utterance most readily
understood as talking about everybody in
this room in the Palazzo Feltrinelli?
! What if there are salient properties of
subgroups present in this room? 14
A salient group of smilers
! Me: EverybodyC is smiling.
" # # " " # " # " #
" " # " # " # # " #
# # # " # # # # # "
" # # " # # # " # "
! What I said is still likely to be judged false.
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Observation
! Even very salient properties of individuals
are not readily picked up as values for
domain restriction variables.
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Worse things to come ….
(29) EverybodyC is smiling.
Why felt to be false?
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An early example
Larson & Segal 1995:
(30) Boris enters the room and leaves the door open. There are other doors tothe room.The door is open.
(31) Boris enters the room twice through different doors, each time leavingthe door open. Suppose there are five doors in the room.Every door is open.You left every door open, you dope.
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Salience not enough
(32) A: Lisa is a phonologist. I think that most linguistsC would agreewith what she said.B: I don’t think any syntactician or semanticist would.A: #I was only talking about phonologists, of course.
A’s response seem lunacy. But why, since phonologists are salient?
Compare: I think that most such linguists would agree with what she said.
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Situations to the rescue
• Austinian topic situations• Resource situations
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Situation Semantics
• Sentences denote propositions (which describe situations)• A sentence is true of/about a situation (Austinian topic situation)
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The card game
(33) Claire is playing two card games simultaneously.I look over at one and I sayClaire has a good hand.
If Claire has a good hand in the other game but not in the one I amlooking at, I said something false.
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Restriction to topic situations
(34) Everybody had a grand time.
We’re talking about the workshop. The workshop situation is theAustinian topic situation for the sentence. Quantifiers in it arerestricted to individuals in the topic situation.
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More detail
Predicates are functions from individuals to propositions.
λs. every student s smiled s
true of any situation s such that every x that is a student in s smiled in s
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Locality, again
(35) Everybody is asleep and is being monitored by a research assistant.
λs. everybody sr asleep s
true of any situation s such that every x that is somebody in resourcesituation sr is asleep in s.
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Schwarz 2012
Arguments that the situation argument that allows for reference toresource situations needs to be introduced by the quantifier (ratherthan being identified with the situation with respect to which predicatesare evaluated).
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Prediction
Weak quantifiers (which cannot give rise to transparent readings) alsoshould not give rise to readings where they are restricted to a resourcesituation.
This will be complex and subtle. Here’s Schwarz’s experiment:
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I tell you that I’m teaching a semantics class and that I advertised auniversity-wide talk by a famous person from the field last Friday. I also tell youthat I was hopeful that many of the students from my class would show up, so Iwas eager to see who was there.
You: So what did you see when you checked who’s in the audience?Me: Well, …
(36) there were exactly three students in attendance.(# … in addition to two others from other classes)
(37) exactly three students were in attendance.(… in addition to two others from other classes)
(38) there was not a single student to be found.(# … though plenty of other people’s students had shown up)
(39) not a single student was to be found.(… though plenty of other people’s students had shown up)
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Elbourne’s Argument
(40) In this village, if a farmer owns a donkey, he beats the donkey andthe priest beats the donkey too. strict, *sloppy
(41) In this village, if a farmer owns a donkey, he beats the donkey andthe priest beats the donkey he owns too. strict, sloppy
Under the C-variable approach, we would expect (40) to have a sloppyreading (the C-variable would map the priest to things he owns).
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(42) In this village, every farmer who owns a donkey beats the donkeyand the priest beats the donkey too. strict, *sloppy
(43) In this village, every farmer who owns a donkey beats the donkeyand the priest beats the donkey he owns too. strict, sloppy
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Try it with other quantifiers:
(44) In this village, if a farmer owns donkeys, he beats every donkey andthe priest beats every donkey too. strict, *sloppy
(45) In this village, if a farmer owns donkeys, he beats every donkey andthe priest beats every donkey he owns too. strict, sloppy
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Another argument from Elbourne
Focus on the co-varying reading of the following sentence:
(46) John fed no cat of Mary’s before it was bathed.
Compare:
(47) John fed no cat of Mary’s before the cat of Mary’s was bathed.
(48) John fed no cat of Mary’s before Mary’s cat was bathed.
Elbourne 2008: argument for C-variable (as argument of D), againstStanley (& Szabó) and situation account
But OK for D-situation account, I think.
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Interim conclusion
The situation-based account is a serious competitor to the oldC-variable approach.
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III. Domain widening
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Potatoes
(49) Will there be French fries tonight?No, I don’t have potatoes.Maybe you have just a couple of potatoes that I could take and fry in myroom?Sorry, I don’t have ANY potatoes.
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Kadmon & Landman 1993:
• any signals that the domain is being widened• widening only licit when it strengthens the meaning• predicts NPI distribution
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Arregui 2008
Weak indefinites don’t like to be restricted:
(50) A friend comes in from the rain, soakedThe friend: Can you lend me socks?You have just put every sock you own into the washing machineYou: Sorry, I don’t have socks.(Your friend looks at you strangely.)
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(51) A friend approaches you at a barbecue with a plate of veggie burgers hehas recently finished cooking. They are burnt.Your friend: Do you want veggie burgers?You: No thanks, I don’t want veggie burgers.You wait until your friend has gone away, and then turn to someonebeside you who’s carrying a plate of nicely done veggie burgersYou: I want veggie burgers.
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• problematic for the Stanley (& Szabó) line• consistent with accounts that locate the covert restriction with
strong quantifiers
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Arregui’s point
If these weak indefinites are not interpreted in a restricted way at all,how can adding any widen the domain?
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Chierchia
• uses the “widening” imagery• but has an official proposal that’s not quite that• and thus, I think, is immune to Arregui’s worry
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Chierchia’s official analysis
[[anyD]]o = λP.λQ ∃x ∈ D : P ∧ D(x) = 1 and Q(x) = 1
[[anyD]]alt = {λP.λQ ∃x ∈ D′ : P ∧ D′(x) = 1 and Q(x) = 1 | D′ ⊆ D}
The smaller domain alternatives induced by any are subject toobligatory exhaustification, i.e. they are signaled as false. This explainsthe NPI nature of any.
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Chierchia’s official analysis
[[anyD]]o = λP.λQ ∃x ∈ D : P ∧ D(x) = 1 and Q(x) = 1
[[anyD]]alt = {λP.λQ ∃x ∈ D′ : P ∧ D′(x) = 1 and Q(x) = 1 | D′ ⊆ D}
The smaller domain alternatives induced by any are subject toobligatory exhaustification, i.e. they are signaled as false. This explainsthe NPI nature of any.
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One more example from Arregui
(52) Me: In his French class, John was horrible to the male students.You: Actually, he didn’t give any (ANY) students their grade.
Can this be done in a situation-based approach?
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One more example from Arregui
(52) Me: In his French class, John was horrible to the male students.You: Actually, he didn’t give any (ANY) students their grade.
Can this be done in a situation-based approach?
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The End
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