Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts

AvUtpal Lahiri

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Linguists (and others) have realised for some time that predicates of the 'know' and 'wonder' classes behave differently, in semantic terms, with respect to their interrogative complements, but have not so far fully understood how or why. This book seeks to explore and to provide solutions to this and to related problems in explaining the meaning and grammar of embedded interrogatives and the predicates that take interrogative complements. The investigation extends to the semantics of adverbs of quantification, theories of plurals, and lexical selection. The work is addressed to those working in semantics and to syntacticians concerned with the constraints that syntactic structure imposes on semantic interpretation. It is at the heart of current research in the syntax-semantics interface. Although some knowledge of formal semantics is assumed, the book has been written to be accessible to researchers in computer science, philosophy, and cognitive science.

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Utgivningsdatum:2002-01-17
Mått:165 x 241 x 23 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198241331

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Utpal Lahiri is Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at MIT. Having obtained his doctorate from MIT in 1991, he was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Connecticut, Lecturer at MIT, and Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine.

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I have never seen anyone walk into such a thicket of formalisms overgrown on so wide a terrain of phenomena and emerge with such a salutary result, with the dragon slain. Along the way is a pageant of smart refutations, elegant formulations, charity towards opponents and some new empirical discovery. Publication will be an important occasion. The book's simplifying vision of the semantics of interrogatives promises to finally make the subject fit for introductory graduate courses.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction ; 2. A Brief Survey of Some Issues in the Semantics of Questions ; 3. Quantificational Variability I: Adverbial modification of embedded interrogatives ; 4. Embedded Interrogatives and Plurality ; 5. Quantificational Variability II: Adverbial modification of interrogative-embedding predicates ; 6. The Syntax of Embedded Interrogatives