At the frontier of quantification: Correlatives, movement and scope

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to take a further look at correlatives (CRs), focusing on Hindi and the classic work on it (especially, Dayal (1991a,b, 1996), Bhatt (2003)). Despite the progress in our understanding of these constructions, there are some hard questions pertaining to at least two of their key features, namely bijectivity and locality, that remain in need of satisfactory answers. I’d like to propose a new take on them, based on a movement analysis of all CRs, including multiple ones, something that prima facie appears to be hopeless.Yet, a movement analysis of multiple CRs not only turns out to be viable and make correct predictionsfor Hindi, to an extent that arguably goes beyond the empirical reach of the classical analyses, but it also extends to other languages (e.g. Romanian) and, importantly, enables us to place CRs appropriately in the space of UG quantifiers.