Abstract
Section 1 provides a brief summary of the pair-list literature singling out
some points that are particularly relevant for the coming discussion. -/- Section 2 shows that the dilemma of quantifi cation versus domain restriction
arises only in extensional complement interrogatives. In matrix questions and
in intensional complements only universals support pairlist readings, whence
the simplest domain restriction treatment suffices. Related data including
conjunction, disjunction, and cumulative readings are discussed -/- Section 3 argues that in the case of extensional complements the domain
restriction treatment is inadequate for at least two independent reasons. One
has to do with the fact that not only upward monotonic quantifi ers support
pairlist readings, and the other with the derivation of apparent scope out readings. The reasoning is supplemented with some discussion of the semantic
properties of layered quantifi ers.
The above will establish the need for quantifi cation, so the question arises
how the objections explicitly enlisted in the literature against quantifi cation can be answered. Section 4 considers the de dicto reading of the quantifi ers restriction, quanti cational variability, and the absence of pairlist readings with whether questions, and argues that they need not militate against the quanti ficational analysis. -/- Section 5 summarizes the emergent proposal -/- Finally, section 6 discusses the signifi cance of the above findings for the
behavior of weak islands.