On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses
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On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses

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First published in 1994, this book is concerned with certain kinds of wh -clauses, whose interpretations are easily and, the author argues, plausibly rendered by a logicosemantic analysis on which wh- phrases translate as open sentences, that is, as expressions of the semantically interpreted representation which contain free variables. After a review of influential contemporary analyses of the semantics of questions, concentrating on issues related to the truthconditional interpretation of these constructions, the author goes on to analyse logicosemantic similarities between wh -phrases and indefinite NPs. This analysis is extended in chapter V to account for asymmetries between wh- phrases and indefinites, but is preceded by the engagement and refutation of some of the challenges to it. The appendices discuss some peripheral points relating to the central points made by the author which are in need of further study.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
9781134998920
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Index

adverbs of quantification 6-7, 9-10, 12, 14, 40-41, 45, 72, 74, 81, 130, 155
as frequency quantifiers 52, 104-105, 106, 107
as quantifiers over situations 86-87
sentential scope 109, 123
unselectivity of 7, 10, 41
Altham, J. 14
Aoun, J. 122, 127
ƅqvist, L. 20-23, 31-32, 42, 50
Asher, N. 138
Bacon, J. 14
Baker, C.L. 4, 26, 35, 60, 62, 69, 76, 81-83, 88, 124, 126, 129, 132, 134
Barwise, J. 9, 147
Bauerle, R. 18, 33, 81
Belnap, N. 24, 27, 43, 78
Bennett, M. 24, 27, 36
Berman, S. 76, 86, 136
Boƫr, S. 23, 27, 34. 35, 67-71, 102
Bolinger, D. 137
Bonet, E. 127
Bresnan, J. 76, 113, 135
Carlson, G. 8, 106, 135 Catalan 127 Chierchia, G. 9 Chisolm, R. 94 Choe, J.-W. 137, 139
Chomsky, N. 58, 1ll, 118, 122, 124, 135, 139
Comorovski, I. 74, 125, 139
complete awareness hypothesis 90-93, 99
context set 152
conversational background 56
conversational implicature 82, 96-98
Cooper, R. 9, 147
Cresswell, M. 34
D-linking 124-126
declarative sentence 24-25
as denoting sets of propositions 24-25, 29
Declerck, R. 46
default quantifier 7, 131
generic 7-8
universal 7, 41, 75, 143
definiteness 14, 78, 136, 149
definites 4, 119, 149-152, 154
and global accommodation 149
functional reading of 147
singular and plural 150
denotation-...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Original Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. I Introduction
  11. II An Overview of Semantic Analyses of Questions
  12. III A Nonquantificational Analysis of Wh-Phrases, I: Parallels Between Wh-Phrases and Indefinites
  13. IV Exhaustiveness
  14. V A Nonquantificational Analysis of Wh-Phrases, II: Asymmetries Between Wh-Phrases and Indefinites
  15. Appendices
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index