ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a more detailed account of the QE and considers some aspects of the meaning of ES that the author have tended to neglect within the framework that he have used to discuss ES. He indicates the importance of semantic and discourse factors in the interpretation of Verbal ES. Milsark is concerned with enumerative uses of ES as apparent exceptions to the QE. He suggests that in examples such as existence is not predicated of the quantified NP but of a 'hypothetical set projected from the NP'. Rando and Napoli accept a substantial part of Milsark's analysis of enumerative ES, and, in particular, the claim that in such sentences the argument is the whole list, so that the quantified status of the NP is not relevant to the acceptability of the sentence. (10b) will not be well-formed because the predicate applies to individuals and therefore selects a Predication analysis.
