Quantifier Movement and Derivation by Phase - Now You See It, Now You Don't.
Ken Ramshøj Christensen

Workshop on Comparative and Theoretical Syntax.When and why do constituents move?,
Dep. of English, Univ. of Aarhus, December 14-16, 2004.

Abstract:
In this talk I apply Chomsky's (2001) phase-based derivational approach to quantified objects. In the traditional Government and Binding approach scope ambiguities of quantifiers (e.g. what, all, some, any, no), are accounted for in terms of covert movement. In "Derivation by phase" Chomsky explicitly dispenses with covert movement. However, I propose a that operators may strand their phonological features - a very constrained version of covert movement. This approach provides a unified account of the empirical data from a variety of languages including Danish, Icelandic, English, and French.