Question/Answer Congruence and the Semantics of wh-phrases
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Question/Answer Congruence and the Semantics of wh-Phrases∗
This paper is about the semantics of wh-phrases. It is argued that wh-phrases should not be analyzed as indefinites as, for example, Karttunen (1977) and many others have done, but as functional expressions with an indefinite core —their function being to restrict possible focus/background structures in direct or congruent answers. This will be argued for on the basis of observations made with ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Theoretical Linguistics
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0301-4428,1613-4060
DOI: 10.1515/thli.2002.28.1.73