Lowering and Mid-Size Clauses *

1. WHAT KIND OF MOVEMENT IS QR? When a sentence contains more than one scope bearing element, it often gets an ambiguous interpretation. Under the assumption that scope relations are unambiguously represented at the level of Logical Form (LF), such a sentence is associated with two or more LF representations, each of which is mapped to a distinct semantic interpretation. These LFs are typically derived from the one surface structure by movement of the scope bearing constituents. The operations of this sort that we will be concerned with are Quantifier Raising (QR), which raises a DP from its surface position, and Quantifier Lowering (QL), which restores a DP into one of the positions it moved from.