Information structure, syntax, and pragmatics and other factors in resolving scope ambiguity
The paper is a corpus study of the factors involved in disambiguating potential scope ambiguity in sentences with negation and universal quantifier, such as {`}I don{'}t want talk to all these people{''}, which can alternatively mean {}I don{'}t want to talk to any of these people{'} and {}I don{'}t want to talk to some of these people{'}. The relevant factors are demonstrated to be largely different from those involved in disambiguating lexical polysemy. They include the syntactic function of the constituent containing {}all{''} quantifier (subject, direct complement, adjunct), as well as the deepness of its embedding; the status of the main predicate and {`}all{''} constituent with respect to the information structure of the 6utterance (topic vs. focus, given vs. new information); pragmatic implicatures pertaining to the situations described in the utterances.
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