Concealed Questions and Specificational Subjects*
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Concealed questions under cover
Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of ...
متن کاملConcealed Questions Are Structured
Questions in natural language typically consist of a proposition articulated into a foreground part, which evokes a set of alternatives, and a background part, which provides a function for distinguishing among those alternatives. For instance, the question Who left? asks which of the people that who quantifies over (the foreground) have the property of leaving (the background). Concealed quest...
متن کاملConcealed Questions with Quantifiers
Concealed question noun phrases headed by the definite article have been analysed as contributing the intension of the noun phrase –an individual concept– as semantic argument of the verb. Concealed questions with quantifiers challenge this analysis. Several empirical observations will be presented and an analysis will be sketched that treats this quantification as external to the concealed que...
متن کاملSpecificational subjects – a formal characterization and some consequences
This paper provides a formal semantic characterization of specificational copular clauses using the theory of noun phrase interpretation developed by Partee (1987). It is argued that specificational clauses involve an unusual alignment of a predicative noun phrase with the subject position. This leads to the prediction that only noun phrases capable of denoting predicates can occur in this posi...
متن کاملConcealed Questions from a Cross-linguistic Perspective
Hypothesis: There are three semantic analyses of ‘concealed questions’ – DP complements (CQ-DPs) of a class of verbs (CQ verbs) that can be intuitively paraphrased as an interrogative clause (1). Baker (1968)’s ‘Question in Disguise’ analysis (QID) holds that CQs are questions with the unpronounced materials ellipticized. In Heim (1979) and Romero (2005)’s ‘Individual Concept’ approach (IC), th...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Linguistics and Philosophy
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0165-0157,1573-0549
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-005-2654-9