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On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses

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On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses book

On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses

DOI link for On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses

On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses book

ByStephen Berman
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1994
eBook Published 25 November 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315536712
Pages 196 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315536712
SubjectsHumanities, Language & Literature
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Berman, S. (1994). On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315536712

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|2 pages

Overview

chapter 2|8 pages

The Lewis/Heim/Kamp Theory

chapter 3|1 pages

Summary

chapter |3 pages

Notes

chapter 1|1 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|2 pages

Categorial Approaches

chapter 3|4 pages

Embedding Approaches

chapter 4|8 pages

Propositional Approaches

chapter 5|1 pages

Summary

chapter |6 pages

Notes

chapter 1|1 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|2 pages

The Quantificational Variability of Wh-phrases

chapter 3|8 pages

Wh-Clauses as Restrictive Terms

chapter 4|9 pages

Deriving the Restrictive Term: Presupposition

chapter 5|13 pages

The Presuppositional Vagueness of Clause-embedding Predicates

chapter 6|2 pages

Recapitulation

chapter |7 pages

Notes

chapter 1|1 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|6 pages

(Weak) Exhaustiveness

chapter 3|10 pages

The Domain of Quantification

chapter 4|1 pages

Summary

chapter |4 pages

Notes

chapter 1|1 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|4 pages

Data and Generalizations

chapter 3|20 pages

Wh-Movement as a Determinant of Wh-Phrase Quantifiability

chapter 4|5 pages

Nonquantifiable Wh-phrases

chapter 5|2 pages

Summary

chapter |6 pages

Notes

chapter |8 pages

A Wh-Phrases as Variables Over Functions

chapter |6 pages

B Definiteness and Global Accommodation

chapter C|4 pages

Complement If- and Whether-Claues

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