ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of the book. Accounts of the QE have been characterized by attempts to define the nations strong and weak quantified expressions. The interpretation of quantified expressions as strong or weak reflects the form of the NP and whether it carries an stated assumption (SA). ES provide a rich area for study in that they are highly complex from the point of view of syntactic structure. The theory of sentence grammar, and specifically the grammar of English, specifies possible sentences together with an appropriate number of readings and derivations. After reviewing several approaches the author propose that the most straightforward is one based on the notion of a contextually presupposed individual or set, which follows very much in the spirit of Milsark's original proposal. An important aspect of the framework is the set of tacit assumptions (TAs) that a participant holds, which includes knowledge of the immediate situation of utterance.
