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- Title
A hybrid categorial approach to question composition.
- Authors
Xiang, Yimei
- Abstract
This paper revisits two fundamental issues in question semantics—what does a question mean, and how is this meaning compositionally derived? Drawing on observations with the distribution of wh-words in questions and free relatives as well as quantificational variability effects in question-embeddings, I argue that the nominal meanings of short answers must be derivable from question denotations, which therefore calls for a categorial approach to defining questions, including embedded questions. I provide a novel hybrid categorial approach to compose questions. This approach overcomes the problems with traditional categorial approaches in defining bare wh-indefinites, composing multi-wh questions, and accounting for coordinations of questions.
- Subjects
LINGUISTICS; QUESTIONS in literature; SEMANTICS; COMPARATIVE linguistics; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Linguistics & Philosophy, 2021, Vol 44, Issue 3, p587
- ISSN
0165-0157
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10988-020-09294-8