This book synthesizes and integrates 40 years of research on the semantics of questions, and its interface with pragmatics and syntax, conducted within the formal semantics tradition …
A Kratzer, J Shimoyama - … in information structure, alternatives and scalar …, 2017 - Springer
The quantificational system in Japanese makes use of so-called indeterminate pronouns, which take on existential, universal, interrogative, negative polarity, or free choice …
The Grammar of Q puts forth a novel syntactic and semantic analysis of wh-questions, one that is based upon in-depth study of the Tlingit language, an endangered and under …
S Beck - Natural Language Semantics, 2006 - Springer
The paper provides a semantic analysis of intervention effects in wh-questions. The interpretation component of the grammar derives uninterpretability, hence ungrammaticality …
Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the …
The minimalist notion of a phase has often been investigated with a view to the interfaces.'Phases' provides a strictly syntax-internal perspective. If phases are fundamental …
An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh-movement. In this book, Hadas Kotek …
J Shimoyama - Natural Language Semantics, 2006 - Springer
This paper examines the question of how so-called indeterminate phrases in Japanese (Kuroda 1965) associate with relevant particles higher in the structure. In the universal …
S Beck, T Oda, K Sugisaki - Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2004 - Springer
This paper proposes a semantic analysis of comparison constructions in Japanese which is crucially different from the standard semantics of comparatives as developed for English and …