This paper aims to explain the observation (not previously reported) that-wa obviates
Negative Island effects in Japanese degree questions. The explanation offered ties this …

According to the standard analysis of degree questions (see, among others,;), the logical
form of a degree question contains a variable that ranges over individual degrees and is …

It is proposed that wh-islands with degree questions are unacceptable because they cannot
be given a most informative true answer. Wh-islands thus are shown to be similar to other …

The goal of this paper is to argue for a new approach to the semantics of degree questions.
According to the standard analysis (see, among others, Rullmann 1995 and Beck & …

We argue that English why-questions are systematically ambiguous between a purpose and
a reason interpretation, similarly to Mandarin, Russian, and Polish (contra Stepanov & Tsai …

In a nutshell (✗?): 1. S asks the HNQ “Didn't Mo eat?” 2. If S were ignorant of whether or not
Mo ate, the PPQ “Did Mo eat?” would have been better at resolving S's ignorance (because …

This article concerns the cartography of the left periphery in Japanese, in particular, the
distribution of complementizers ka and no that are typically found in questions. I explore the …

This paper describes the formation of yes/no (Y/N) questionsin colloquial Singapore
Teochew (ST), a variety of Teochew (Chaozhou) which has borrowed a significant number …

The non-truth-conditional (or 'use-conditional') aspects of the meanings of declarative
sentences, eg presuppositions, conventional implicatures, etc., have been extensively …

This thesis is about strong island effects and intervention effects. Strong island effects are
contexts where operator-variable dependencies cannot be established. The paradigmatic …