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On the presuppositional strength of interrogative clauses
Natural Language Semantics, 2021A central question in the study of presuppositions is how a presupposition trigger contributes to the meaning of a complex expression containing it. Two competing answers are found in the literature on quantificational expressions. According to the first, a quantificational expression presupposes that every member of its domain satisfies the ...
Maayan Abenina-Adar, Yael Sharvit
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The prepositional interrogative clause
Celtica, 2019This paper traces the development of a syntactic structure in the modern Gaelic languages in which an interrogative pronoun is followed by an inflected preposition, e.g. Mod. Ir. cé leis a raibh tú ag caint?, Scot. Gael. cò ris a bha thu a’ bruidhinn? (‘with whom were you speaking?’).
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Remnant movement and smuggling in some romance interrogative clauses
2020This chapter analyzes the syntax of interrogative clauses in French and in some Northern Italian dialects (NIDs), including so-called “wh-in-situ” configurations. It shows that their intricate properties can be derived from standard computations (“wh-movement” and remnant movement of vP/IP to a Top/ground slot) to either the vP Left periphery (“LLP ...
Cecilia Poletto, Jean-Yves Pollock
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