@inproceedings{apresjan-2016-information,
    title = "Information structure, syntax, and pragmatics and other factors in resolving scope ambiguity",
    author = "Apresjan, Valentina",
    editor = "Haji{\v{c}}ov{\'a}, Eva  and
      Boguslavsky, Igor",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Grammar and Lexicon: interactions and interfaces ({G}ram{L}ex)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2016",
    address = "Osaka, Japan",
    publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/W16-3801",
    pages = "1--6",
    abstract = "The paper is a corpus study of the factors involved in disambiguating potential scope ambiguity in sentences with negation and universal quantifier, such as {``}I don{'}t want talk to all these people{''}, which can alternatively mean {`}I don{'}t want to talk to any of these people{'} and {`}I don{'}t want to talk to some of these people{'}. The relevant factors are demonstrated to be largely different from those involved in disambiguating lexical polysemy. They include the syntactic function of the constituent containing {``}all{''} quantifier (subject, direct complement, adjunct), as well as the deepness of its embedding; the status of the main predicate and {``}all{''} constituent with respect to the information structure of the 6utterance (topic vs. focus, given vs. new information); pragmatic implicatures pertaining to the situations described in the utterances.",
}