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Contents
Preface
1.1 Prolegomena
1.2.2 Constraint-Based Grammar
1.2.3 The Primacy of Constructions
1.2.4 Some Syntactic Consequences
1.3.1 Beyond Montague Semantics
1.3.2 Situation Theory and Situation Semantics
1.3.3 Some Semantic Theses
1.4 Conclusion
2.2 Feature Structures
2.3 Words
2.4 Features of Verbals
2.4.1 Distinguishing Verbal Forms
2.4.2 Distinguishing Verbal Meanings
2.4.3 Some Auxiliary Issues
2.5 Phrases as Feature Structures
2.6 Clause Types
2.7 Main and Embedded Clauses
2.8 Complementizers and To
2.9 Proposition-Embedding Verbs
2.10 Fact-Denoting Declarative Clauses
2.11 Summary
3.1 Introduction: Semantic Theory and Ontology
3.2 An Ontology for Finite Clauses in English
3.2.1 Distinguishing Questions from Propositions
3.2.2 Do Interrogatives Ever Denote Propositions?
3.2.3 The Missing Semantic Type: Facts
3.2.4 Outcomes
3.2.5 Interim Summary and Implications
3.3.1 Basic Strategy
3.3.2 Situation Structures
3.3.3 Simultaneous Abstraction
3.4.1 The Austinian Strategy
3.4.3 Possibilities, Facts, and Propositions
3.4.4 Outcomes
3.4.5 Compounding Operations on Propositions
3.5 Questions
3.5.1 Questions as Exhaustivity Encoders
3.5.2 Questions as Propositional Abstracts
3.5.3 Notions of Answerhood
3.6 A TFS Version of the Ontology
3.6.1 Basic Setup
3.6.2 Interpreting Typed Feature Structures
3.6.3 Semantic Universals: Selection and Clause Denotations
4. Wh-Phrase Meaning
4.1 Quantification and Domain Selection
4.2 The Semantic Contribution of Wh-Phrases
4.3.1 Wh-Phrases as Generalized Quantifiers?
4.3.2 The Non-Synonomy of Multiple Wh-Interrogatives and Wh/GQ-Interrogatives
4.3.3 Presuppositions of Which-Interrogatives
4.4.1 Functional Readings
4.4.2 Wh-Phrases and Adverbs
4.4.3 Pair-List Readings: Evidence for Quantifying In?
4.5 Describing Functional Uses
4.6 Summary and General Architecture
5.1.1 Extracted Arguments
5.1.2 'Topicalization': An Extraction Construction
5.1.3 Some Constraints on Extraction
5.2 Pied Piping
5.2.1 Wh-Words
5.2.2 Wh-Percolation
5.3 Quantifier Scope
5.5 Summary
6.1 Basic Interrogatives
6.2 Wh-Complementizers
6.3 Polar Interrogatives
6.4 Wh-Exclamative Phrases
6.5.1 General Constraints
6.5.2 Nonsubject Wh-Interrogatives
6.5.3 Subject Wh-Interrogatives
6.6.1 The Basic Analysis of Multiple Wh-Questions
6.6.2 Superiority Effects
6.7 Conclusion
7. In-Situ Wh-Phrases
7.1.1 Background
7.1.2 Syntactic Constraints
7.2 The Semantics of Reprise Uses
7.3 Non-Reprising In-Situ Wh-Interrogatives
7.5 Cross-Linguistic Variation
8.1.1 Ellipsis Resolution
8.1.2 General Approach
8.1.3 Lexical Utterances
8.1.4 Declarative Fragment Clauses
8.1.5 Sluicing: General Strategy
8.1.6 Reprise Sluices
8.1.7 Direct Sluices
8.2.1 Introduction
8.2.2 Semantic Analysis of Positive and Negative Polar Questions
8.2.3 Distinctness in Content and Contextual Appropriateness
8.3.1 Question Predicates
8.3.2 Resolutive Predicates
A.1 Some Basic Types
A.1.1 Type Hierarchy
A.1.2 Type Declarations
A.1.3 Type Constraints
A.2.1 Type Hierarchy
A.2.2 Nonmaximal Phrase Types
A.2.3 Maximal Declarative-Clause Types
A.2.4 Maximal Interrogative Clauses
A.2.5 Other Maximal Clausal Types
A.2.6 Maximal Nonclausal Types
B.1 Some Basic Semantic Types
B.1.1 Semantic Type Hierarchy
B.1.3 Type Constraints
B.2 Interpreting Typed Feature Structures
B.3.1 SU+AE: The Definitions
B.3.2 Notions Related to Questions
B.3.3 SU+AE: Formal Foundations
C.2 General Lexical Constraints
C.3.1 Determiners
C.3.2 Prepositions
C.3.3 Complementizers
C.3.4 Verbs
C.3.6 Nouns
C.3.8 Propositional Lexemes
List of Abbreviations
References
Index
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