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List of Abbreviations.- Chapter 1.- 1 Introduction.- 1.1 Proposal.- 1.1.1 Non-canonical Quantification.- 1.1.2 Existential presupposition.- 1.1.3 Chapter 2 (part 1): Wh-phrases in-situ.- 1.1.4 Chapter 2 (part 2) : Existential Quantifiers.- 1.1.5 Chapter 3 : Universal Quantifiers.- 1.1.6 Chapter 4 : Negation and N-words.- 1.2 Outline.- 1.3 Reference list.- Chapter 2.- 2 Introduction Split-Dps.- 2.1 Wh-questions in French.- 2.1.1 Wh-fronting and Wh-reinforced fronting.- 2.1.2 Wh-clefts.- 2.2 Wh in-situ.- 2.2.1 Standard colloquial French.- 2.2.2 Non-standard colloquial French.- 2.3 Split-DPs.- 2.3.1 Evidence for a movement analysis of wh-phrases in-situ phrases in NSC French.- 2.3.2 French Wh-phrases are not necessarily interrogative.- 2.3.3 Combien … de NP: Obenauer 1983, 1984, 1994 and Mathieu 2002.- 2.3.4 The optionality problem.- 2.4 Existential Qs in French.- 2.4.1 Prosody and Semantics.- 2.4.2 Syntax.- 2.5 The internal structures of Wh and existential un Ns.- 2.6 Conclusion.- 2.7 Reference list.- Chapter 3. 3 Introduction: Floating quantification.- 3.1 Universal Quantifiers: basic facts.- 3.2 Two types of Universal Quantifiers.- 3.2.1 Prosody and Semantics.- 3.2.2 Syntax.- 3.3 Floating Quantifiers (FQs): Doetjes 1997, Fitzpatrick 2006.- 3.4 Conclusion.- 3.5 Reference list.- Chapter 4 .4 Introduction: N-words.- 4.1 French Negation: an overview.- 4.1.1 Sentential Negation, constituent negation, ne and pas.- 4.2 Monotonicity: pas un N vs. Pas tous les.- 4.2.1 pas un N.- 4.2.2 pas tous les N.- 4.2.3 pas is parasitic on Qs.- 4.2.4 The structure of monotone decreasing pas tous and anti-addictive pas un.- 4.2.5 Wrapping up.- 4.3 The Negative status of N-words.- 4.4 French N-words and universal quantifiers.- 4.4.1 Existence and commitment of existence.- 4.5 A typology of N-words.- 4.6 The structure of N-words.- 4.6.1 N-words are (covert) FQs.- 4.7 Conclusion.- 4.8 Reference list.- Chapter 5. 5 Introduction.- 5.1 Locality Effects.- 5.1.1 Relativized Minimality.- 5.1.2 Starke 2001.- 5.2 Redefining the feature-class of Qs: Strength.- 5.2.1 Extracting Qs across Universal quantifiers.- 5.2.2 Comparing existential un N to Wh-phrases in-situ.- 5.2.3 Negation, N-words and intervention effects.- 5.2.4 Wh-phrases and combien-extraction: some differences.- 5.3 Strong Islands.- 5.3.1 Intermediate scope.- 5.3.2 Feature stripping (Baunaz and Puskás 2009).- 5.3 Remaining issues.- 5.4 Conclusion.- 5.5 Reference list.- Chapter 6. 6.1 Results.- 6.1.1 Chapter 2: Split-DPs.- 6.1.2 Chapters 3-4: Floating Quantifiers (FQs).- 6.1.3 Strength.- 6.2 Perspectives.- 6.3 Reference list.- Appendix.- Appendix 1 (to Chapter 4).- Appendix 2 (to Chapter 4).- References.- Index.