The existential/uniqueness presupposition of wh-complements projects from the answers-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The existential/uniqueness presupposition of wh-complements projects from the answers

Published:2020-09-08 Issue:4 Volume:44 Page:911-951
ISSN:0165-0157
Container-title:Linguistics and Philosophy
language:en
Short-container-title:Linguist and Philos

Author:

Uegaki Wataru^ORCID

Abstract

AbstractThe projection pattern of the existential/uniqueness presupposition of a wh-complement varies depending on the predicate that embeds it. This variation poses problems for existing accounts that treat the presupposition as a semantic contribution of an operator merging with the wh-complement (Dayal in Locality in Wh-quantification: questions and relative clauses in Hindi. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1996) or of the embedding predicate (Uegaki in Interpreting questions under attitudes. Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD dissertation, Cambridge, 2015). I propose that the problems can be solved if the existential/uniqueness presupposition is contributed by the propositions corresponding to the answers of the embedded question, under the Hamblin/Karttunen semantics for questions.

Funder

University of Edinburgh

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Philosophy

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10988-020-09309-4.pdf

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