On Some Questionable Arguments about Quantifiers and Negation.

Ray Jackendoff

Expert InsightsPublished 1970

Recent work in generative grammar, particularly in the school of generative semantics, has relied heavily on the hypothesis that quantifiers such as [all] and [each] do not originate in the noun phrases in which they occur on the surface, but rather that they are represented in the deep structure as main verbs of higher sentences. This paper shows that all the original arguments that quantifiers are higher verbs are inconclusive even within their own framework. It also questions certain proposals about the syntactic behavior of negation. 38 pp. Ref.

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