ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on a range of cases in which there appear to be violations of the QE which are nevertheless well-formed. While the state-assigning predicate in (49b) allows the weak quantified subject post-verbal NP, the property-assigning predicate in (49a) brings to the fore a generic interpretation. In the interpretation of (62b), since the hearer will almost certainly infer that the speaker has more knowledge, it is rather natural to express this by allowing the incrementation of the set of tacit assumptions (TAs) to consist of an object-level entity from the start. If an NP is one that can denote a kind-level entity, then quantification can be interpreted as being over stages that instantiate that kind, rather than over some contextually specified object or set of objects, which is what characterizes strong quantification. This approach to quantified expressions will also be used in the following chapter in the analysis of the Property Predication Restriction.
