QR Obeys Superiority: Frozen Scope and ACD

By Benjamin Bruening. Linguistic Inquiry, 2001

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Argument Structure and Ditransitive Verbs in Japanese (2004, methodology): “A more recent approach by Marantz (1993), extended by Harley (1995), Bruening (2001) and Pylkkänen (2002), builds on Larson's "VP shell" idea.”
Association by movement: evidence from NPI-licensing (2007, background): “I gave a doll to each child a > each, each > a The explanation that Bruening (2001) proposes is that althoug both arguments can undergo LF-movement, in the case of the DO-construction, the lower one cannot 12I assume that in cases where ‘only’ associates withbotharguments, either they stay in-situ,…”
The Gradience of the Dative Alternation (2008, background): “The phenomenon of scope-freezing in ditransitives (Aoun and Li 1989, Bruening 2001) is probably an instance of the same generalization.”
Some Interface Properties of the Phase (2003, background): “5 See Bruening 2001 for arguments that QR obeys Superiority.”