Abstract
In English, subjects are normally restricted to take wide scope relative to negation and other vP-level operators, while objects can take either narrow or wide scope:
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One book hasn’t come (yet).
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b.
One student doesn’t know John (yet).
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c.
John hasn’t received one book (yet).
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a.
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Bittner, M. (1994). Case, Scope, and Binding. In: Case, Scope, and Binding. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1412-7_1
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