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118 Tomohiro Yanagi
4. Syntactic position of quantifier eall
4.1 Quantifier Phrase
This section discusses the syntactic position where the quantifier eall can occur. We
will examine the NP internal position of the quantifier eall. As already seen in Section 3,
eall almost always precedes the noun phrase it modifies whether it is nominative or
accusative. On the basis of this fact, the structure in (20) can be assumed: 8
(20) QP
Q
eall
NP
In (20) the quantifier is the head of Quantifier Phrase (QP) and selects an NP as its
complement. From this structure, the ‘full-NP-quantifier’ order can be derived by
adjoining NP to QP. This is illustrated in (21).
(21) a. QP
Q
NP
eall Q
t
This operation is theoretically possible, but if the target of adjunction is an argument,
it is prohibited (cf. Chomsky 1986 & Bošcović 1997, among others). The idea behind
this prohibition is that adjunction to arguments interferes with theta-role assignment.
Here we also assume that adjunction can be applied to the structure acyclically
(cf. Bošcović 2004 & Stepanov 2001). The conditions on adjunction are summed
up in (22). They can account for the ungrammatical sentence in (23).
(22) Conditions on adjunction
a. Adjunction to arguments interferes with theta-role assignment.
b. Adjunction can be applied to the structure acyclically.
8. In what follows no distinction between NP and DP is made for the reason of simplicity. For
the functional projection DP see Abney (1987) among others. Also see Giusti (1991) for the
validity of the structure of (20).
b.
NP
QP
eall
QP