@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00028166,
 author = {Xia, Siyang},
 journal = {IVY},
 month = {Nov},
 note = {This paper aims to provide a unified account for the syntactic properties of Floating Quantifiers (FQs) in English within the minimalist framework. In previous studies, FQs are created as either remnant elements left behind by NP movement (the stranding analysis), or adjuncts base-generated in intermediate positions (the adverbial analysis). Crucially, the similarity of FQs to anaphors has also been observed in early studies. This paper points out problems with the stranding analysis and adopts basic ideas of the adverbial analysis and the anaphoric analysis. Furthermore, under the reformulation of the Binding Condition A in terms of the phase theory in Chomsky (2008) and Multiple Agree in Hiraiwa (2001), this paper proposes a licensing condition of FQs. In particular, it is suggested that an FQ serving as a matching goal enters into an MA relation with a functional head as a probe and its host DP as another matching goal within the same phase domain. Given this assumption, the distribution of both subject-oriented FQs and object-oriented FQs in variant constructions receive unified explanations.},
 pages = {27--51},
 title = {A Syntactic Analysis of Floating Quantifiers in English},
 volume = {50},
 year = {2017}
}