Epistemic Containment
- 1 April 2003
- journal article
- Published by MIT Press in Linguistic Inquiry
- Vol. 34 (2), 173-198
- https://doi.org/10.1162/002438903321663370
Abstract
This article concerns a new constraint on the interaction of quantifier phrases and epistemic modals. It is argued that QPs cannot bind their traces across an epistemic modal, though it is shown that scoping mechanisms of a different nature are permitted to cross epistemic modals. The nature and source of this constraint are investigated.Keywords
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