Some Remarks on Quantificational Variability and Question-Embedding Predicates (U. Lahiri, Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts)

Some Questions and Answers

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Pluralities of Questions

This paper proposes a novel semantic analysis of the quantificational variability data discovered by Berman (1991). We suggest that the adverb of quantification in those data quantifies over semantic questions. Its domain is a division of the original question into subquestions, where a legitimate division into subquestions is one in which each member contributes towards the answer to the origi...

Semantic Characterizations of German Question-Embedding Predicates

The paper investigates the conditions under which German twoplace verbs like wissen dass 'know' and bedauern dass 'regret' embed interrogatives. We present a necessary and sufficient condition for a dassverb to have an ob-form. The corresponding verbs we call objective. An objective verb has a wh-form (F weiß, wer kommt 'F knows who is coming') if it satisfies a further condition stating that i...

Predicates of Relevance and Theories of Question Embedding

Concluding remarks for FD 146: Answers and questions

In view of the attractiveness of the basic science involved, and the significance of its applications, it was quite natural and appropriate that a Faraday Discussion in 2010 would be devoted to the Wetting Dynamics of Hydrophobic and Structured Surfaces. Powerful motivation for continued scientific and engineering advances in this area arise from sources as diverse as the fundamental role of hy...