一个解释Baker歧义的疑问句的延续语义
A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity
摘要:
英语中的wh-短语既可以出现凸起的,也可以出现原位的。然而,只有原位wh-短语才能超越直接包围从句的语义范围。我提出了一个指称语义的疑问,自然占这两个属性。它既不调用运动或经济,也不假定词汇歧义之间提出和原位出现的同一个wh-短语。我的分析是基于延续的概念。它使用了一种新的类型系统来处理高阶延续,以处理广泛的wh短语,同时保持严格的组合。这种处理方法对疑问句的组合学以及其他类型的所谓A '-移位有一定的启示。
英文摘要:
Wh-phrases in English can appear both raised and in-situ. However, only in-situ wh-phrases can take semantic scope beyond the immediately enclosing clause. I present a denotational semantics of interrogatives that naturally accounts for these two properties. It neither invokes movement or economy, nor posits lexical ambiguity between raised and in-situ occurrences of the same wh-phrase. My analysis is based on the concept of continuations. It uses a novel type system for higher-order continuations to handle wide-scope wh-phrases while remaining strictly compositional. This treatment sheds light on the combinatorics of interrogatives as well as other kinds of so-called A'-movement.
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