ABSTRACT
To deal with such cases, I will essentially adopt Hamblin's (1973) analysis of questions. As we have seen in chapter II, section 4.1.1, Hamblin proposes to treat wh-phrases as denoting sets of possible individuals and, correspondingly, wh-clauses as denoting sets of possible propositions. This seems to me a perfectly reasonable approach when the wh-phrase is not otherwise associated with a quantificational force. It is on this point, in fact, that my analysis differs with Hamblin's, which treats wh-phrases always as sets of possible indivi-
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duals,withoutregardtoquantificationaldifferencesbetweenthem.In contrast,Iwanttorestrictthistreatmenttothosecaseswhereawhphrasedoesnotdisplayquantificationalvariability.
