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220 Balázs Surányi(9) RefPRef′RefAgrSPAgrS′AgrSDistPDist′DistSharePShare′ShareAgrIOPAgrIO′AgrIOAgrOPAgrO′AgrOVPRefP is a checking-site for definites and specific wide scope bare numeral indefinites. DistP housesdistributive universals. ShareP hosts bare numeral indefinites that are specific in <strong>the</strong> sense of Enc(1991) (i.e. range over individuals whose existence is presupposed), but that are being distributedover. Non-specific bare numeral indefinites, as well as modified numeral indefinites move only asfar at <strong>the</strong>ir appropriate Case-checking A-position (which are assumed to be AgrP projections, but<strong>the</strong> model would work <strong>the</strong> same way with A-positions in Spec,vP/TP). A difference that Beghelliand Stowell assume to hold between bare numeral indefinites and modified numeral indefinites isthat only <strong>the</strong> latter can reconstruct to <strong>the</strong>ir VP-internal base positions, bare numeral indefinitescannot.Let us briefly review how <strong>the</strong> account predicts <strong>the</strong> relative scope facts by way of reexaminingsome of <strong>the</strong> examples above. Consider (4b) again, repeated as (10a):(10) a. Two students passed fewer than four classes S > O / *O > Sb. [ AgrSP two students . . . [ AgrOP fewer than 4 classes. . . ]]The inverse distributive scope here is impossible because <strong>the</strong> object modified numeral indefinite isin [Spec,AgrOP], while <strong>the</strong> subject bare numeral indefinite that is in subject position cannotreconstruct to VP by assumption. Consider now (5b), reproduced as (11a). The universal must belocated in DistP. Because <strong>the</strong> modifier numeral expression can reconstruct to VP as an option, <strong>the</strong>scope ambiguity is derived.(11) a. Fewer than four students passed every class S > O / O > Sb. [ AgrSP fewer than 4 students [ DistP every class …[ VP fewer than 4 students…]]]