This contribution provides a dependency grammar analysis of the distribution of floating quantifiers in English and German. Floating quantifiers are deemed to be "base generated", meaning that they are not moved into their surface position by a transformation. Their distribution is similar to that of modal adverbs. The nominal (noun or pronoun) over which they quantify is an argument of the predicate to which they attach. Variation in their placement across English and German is due to independent word order principles associated with each language.
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