An inquisitive perspective on modals and quantifiers
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Drawing on recent work in inquisitive semantics, this paper presents a new perspective on modals and quantifiers, which has the potential to address a number of challenges that have been raised for standard approaches to such operators. To illustrate the new perspective, we present an inquisitive take on the semantics of attitude verbs, and on quantifiers taking scope out of questions.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017