On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses

Auteurs

• Marjorie Boulton

Paramètres

• 198 pages
• 7 heures de lecture

• À propos de la littérature
• Art / Culture
• Dictionnaires et manuels de langue
• Manuels
• Philosophie

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Focusing on the semantics of wh-clauses, the author presents a logicosemantic analysis that interprets wh-phrases as open sentences. The book reviews contemporary theories regarding the truth-conditional interpretation of questions and explores the similarities between wh-phrases and indefinite noun phrases. In the final chapter, the author addresses asymmetries between these two categories while engaging with and refuting various challenges to the proposed analysis, offering a comprehensive exploration of these linguistic phenomena.

Achat du livre

• Année de publication: 2018
• Reliure: (souple)