Sentences with more than one quantifier can have different interpretations depending on the scope order of their quantifiers. To our knowledge, this type of ambiguity has received a lot of attention in the Underspecification literature but not in the MTT one. In this paper, we define a new underspecified SemS of MTT which refers to all possible readings of a sentence. In order to specify a particular scope order, we introduce additional dependencies. They roughly correspond, in FOL, to Skolem constants and functions and are part of a new additional structure of SemR level, named SemCtxDepS.

MTT and the quantifier scope ambiguity

LESMO, Leonardo;ROBALDO, LIVIO
2005-01-01

Abstract

Sentences with more than one quantifier can have different interpretations depending on the scope order of their quantifiers. To our knowledge, this type of ambiguity has received a lot of attention in the Underspecification literature but not in the MTT one. In this paper, we define a new underspecified SemS of MTT which refers to all possible readings of a sentence. In order to specify a particular scope order, we introduce additional dependencies. They roughly correspond, in FOL, to Skolem constants and functions and are part of a new additional structure of SemR level, named SemCtxDepS.
2005
East West Encounter: 2nd International Conference on Meaning - Text Theory
Slavic Culture Languages Publishing House
248
257
9785955100944
http://www.mtt.upf.edu/
Intelligenza Artificiale; Linguistica
L. LESMO; L. ROBALDO
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