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Gotham, Matthew: Intensional independence without world variables in LFG+Glue

According to the Scope Theory of Intensionality (STI), the intensional status of an expression is determined by its scope relative to expressions that create intensional contexts. A well-known puzzle for the STI is that a quantificational noun phrase may take scope under an intensional operator, while its restrictor is interpreted as independent of that operator. Intensional independence is often taken to motivate the alternative Binding Theory of Intensionality (BTI), according to which syntactically-represented world (or situation) pronouns determine intensional status. STI vs. BTI is an ongoing debate in the semantics literature: one can say that the STI has a tendency to undergenerate, while the BTI has a tendency to overgenerate. In this paper I formulate a version of the STI that sidesteps these problems of undergeneration, using Glue semantics for LFG, and argue that it gives us some reason to favour LFG+Glue over other conceptions of the syntax/semantics interface.


December 22, 2022
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