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On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses (Hardcover)
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On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology
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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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