Additivity, scalarity and Mandarin Universal wh's

M Liu - Natural Language Semantics, 2023 - Springer
This paper offers a compositional analysis of Mandarin universal wh's in construction with an
additive/scalar adverb ye 'also/even'. In the analysis, universal force is derived from …

The indefinite-interrogative affinity in sign languages: the case of Catalan Sign Language

RV Busto, F Roelofsen… - Proceedings of the 4th …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Prior studies on spoken languages have shown that indefinite and interrogative pronouns
may be formally very similar. Our research aims to understand if sign languages exhibit this …