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Exceptional wide scope is a consequence of the correct treatment of topical quantifiers. This book sought to explain the exceptional wide scope behavior of certain kinds of quantifiers (among which I count the indefinites) on the basis of their topical status. My central claim was the following: topical quantifiers necessarily take wide scope. This wide scope interpretation is a direct consequence of the correct treatment of topicality. Roughly speaking, a topic needs to be established first so that it can be talked about afterwards. Disregarding nested topic-comment structures for the moment, this explains the frequent observation that topics tend to take wide scope. Topicality is understood as aboutness topicality in the sense of Reinhart (1981)
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Endriss, C. (2009). Conclusion. In: Quantificational Topics. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 86. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2303-2_7
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