Utpal Lahiri

Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Linguists have realized for some time that predicates of the 'know' and 'wonder' classes behave differently in semantic terms with respect to their interrogative complements, but have not so far fully understood how or why. This book seeks to explore and to provide solutions to this and to related problems in explaining the meaning and grammar of embedded interrogatives and the predicates that take interrogative complements (indirect questions and how they are answered).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780198241331
• ISBN-10: 019824133X
• Artikelnr.: 24076266

Autorenporträt

Utpal Lahiri is Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at MIT. Having obtained his doctorate from MIT in 1991, he was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Connecticut, Lecturer at MIT, and Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: A Brief Survey of Some Issues in the Semantics of Questions
* 3: Quantificational Variability I: Adverbial modification of embedded
interrogatives
* 4: Embedded Interrogatives and Plurality
* 5: Quantificational Variability II: Adverbial modification of
interrogative-embedding predicates
* 6: The Syntax of Embedded Interrogatives