Talk:Weak Crossover

Discourse referent tags

 * (1) ?Whob does hisb mother love?
 * (2) ?Hisb mother loves each boyb.

Just wondering if the second discourse referent tag in (2) should attach to each rather than to boy. Harold Philby (talk) 18:39, 17 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Better to leave it where it is: assuming (as almost all linguists do) restricted quantification (not the logicians' unrestricted), the binder is actually "each boy", the whole NP (or DP, as it may be). I'll add brackets to make this clear, and homogenize the up and down (down for binder, up for bindee, as in Fiengo and May 1994, if memory serves)? (Cf. Heim's 1998 inner and outer binding indices...)Mundart (talk) 08:25, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Nice solution, nice refs.
 * Down-up/up-down looks like a crossover too.
 * Kudos! Perfect memory for publication dates. :)
 * Robert Fiengo and Robert May, Indices and identity, MIT Press, 1994. ISBN 0262560763
 * Harold Philby (talk) 09:35, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Why are Weak and Strong Crossover separate articles?
Although the two topics can definitely have enough written about them for independent articles, right now most of the material in the two stubs is identical, and in working on the formatting right now I had to copy over almost everything I did because it applied to both. Shouldn't they be merged? -Michael Sappir • (Talk) 18:51, 9 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I have merged the two stubs at Crossover effects. They can be split if there is enough content added to warrant such treatment. Cnilep (talk) 17:21, 19 June 2010 (UTC)