@article{Ebert_Endriss_Hinterwimmer_2019, title={Intermediate Scope Readings as Embedded Speech Acts}, volume={12}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/580}, DOI={10.18148/sub/2008.v12i0.580}, abstractNote={<p>In this paper we explain the variation in availability of (exceptionally wide) <em>intermediate scope readings</em> (ISRs). We argue that ISRs have to be kept apart from functional readings and provide a formal analysis of ISRs. Our approach is based on the assumption that exceptional wide scope readings are the e ect of interpreting the involved inde nite as aboutness topic, where the introduction of an aboutness topic is analyzed as a distinct speech act, similar to an act of referring. We adopt this view and show that intermediate scope readings only occur in the presence of certain topic-comment embedding operators.</p>}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Ebert, Christian and Endriss, Cornelia and Hinterwimmer, Stefan}, year={2019}, month={Jul.}, pages={122–136} }