Parametric Variation of Disjunction

This paper reviews Larson's (1985) analysis of the scope of disjunction and raises some theoretical and empirical problems. A slightly different alternative for the analysis of disjunction will be proposed to handle those problems. Larson's analysis based on the correlation between the syntax of scope indicators and the scope of disjunction clearly aims at a universal theory of disjunction, which may not be true of all languages. I propose a slightly different underlying representation for disjunction and hope to show that the present account explains parametric variation among languages, at least the difference between English and Korean.