ABSTRACT
I believe that the phrase which exams in this sentence can be interpreted either in the lower or the higher clause. In the first case, the sentence is asking for the set of professors for each of whom it is true that, for most pairs of a student and an exam the student cheats on, s/be (i.e. the professor) finds out that the student cheats on the exam. On the second reading the sentence is asking for the set of pairs of a professor and an exam such that, for most students who cheat on the exam, the professor finds out that the student cheats on the exam. Now, on the assumptions I have been making, wh-in-situ is a case of wh-movement at LF in English. On one reading, the in situ phrase moves to the embedded [Spec,CP], on the other reading, to the matrix [Spec,CP].20 These two readings correspond, on my analysis, to the respective translations in (145):
(145) a. Q[professor'(x) & MOST[student'(y) & exam'(z) & cheaton'(y,z)][find-out'(x,[student'(y) & exam'(z) & cheaton'(y ,z) ])]]
b. Q[professor'(x) & exam'(z) & MOST[student'(y) & cheaton'(y,z)][find-out'(x,[student'(y) & exam'(z) & cheaton'(y,z)])]]
The reader may check that successive application of the evaluation algorithms in (142) and (10) of chapter I to these translations yields the two interpretations for (144) I have paraphrased.
