A Uniform Semantics for Declarative and Interrogative Complements
| Autor: | Floris Roelofsen, Nadine Theiler, Maria Aloni |
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| Přispěvatelé: | ILLC (FNWI), Logic and Language (ILLC, FNWI/FGw), Brain and Cognition, ILLC (FGw) |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Semantics Journal of Semantics, 35(3), 409-466. Oxford University Press |
| ISSN: | 0167-5133 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jos/ffy003 |
| Popis: | This paper proposes a semantics for declarative and interrogative complements and for so-called responsive verbs, like know and forget, which embed both kinds of complements. Following Groenendijk & Stokhof (1984), we pursue a uniform account in the sense that we take both kinds of complements to be of the same semantic type and we assume a single lexical entry for each responsive verb. This approach avoids a number of problems for non-uniform theories, such as the reductive theories of Karttunen (1977), Heim (1994), Lahiri (2002), Spector & Egré (2015), among others, and the twin relations theory of George (2011). On the other hand, our account also addresses the main limitation of Groenendijk & Stokhof's (1984) proposal, which is that it is primarily designed to derive strongly exhaustive readings for interrogative complements. Our account is more flexible in that it straightforwardly derives non-exhaustive and intermediate exhaustive readings as well. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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