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2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Modifier Hypothesis on the Japanese Indeterminate Quantifier Phrase
Author : Mana Kobuchi-Philip
Published in: New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Shimoyama’s [20, 21] analysis of the Japanese indeterminate quantifier construction (e.g. dono gakusei-mo odotta. ‘Every student danced’) is superior to previous analyses in the sense that it closely adheres to the Principle of Compositionality. However, under this analysis the mo-phrase of the form [[...wh...]
NP
-mo], is analyzed as a generalized quantifier of semantic type < <
e
,
t
> ,
t
>, and this gives rise to a type-theoretical problem. In order to overcome the difficulties, this paper proposes an alternative analysis in which the mo-phrase is treated as a modifier of semantic type < <
e
,
t
> , <
e
,
t
> >. It also discusses sentences in which mo combines with a PP and an IP and argues that here the modifier hypothesis of the mo-phrase can still be maintained.