| Title: | On Karttunen’s "The syntax and semantics of questions" |
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| Authors: | ID Guerzoni, Elena (Author) |
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| Files: |  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-85308-2#toc
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Unknown |
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| Typology: | 1.16 - Independent Scientific Component Part or a Chapter in a Monograph |
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| Organization: | UNG - University of Nova Gorica
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| Abstract: | Karttunen’s article on the syntax and semantics of questions is a milestone in the truth-conditional compositional semantics of interrogatives and of verbs that embed them. It is the first comprehensive study of the mapping between the syntax and the interpretation of the three different types of questions (polar, constituent and alternative questions) and presents the first semantic analysis of question-embedding verbs (QEVs henceforth) that assumes the same intensions for matrix and embedded interrogatives. This analysis continues to vastly inspire the ongoing research on the properties of questions and QEVs. This chapter illustrates Karttunen’s theory focusing on those formal details that have been the most influential in subsequent literature. In doing so, however, I will take the liberty to suggest a less than literal rendition of these details, in an attempt to make the discussion more accessible to today’s reader. The main departure that I make here from Karttunen’s 1977 is in the formal framework. Whereas Karttunen adopts Montague’s PTQ, here I will expose his ideas in Heim and Kratzer‘s type driven semantics. |
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| Keywords: | interrogatives, questions, syntax-semantics interface, compositionality, wh-movement |
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| Year of publishing: | 2022 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 205-224 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/RUNG-8862  |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 186211331 |
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| UDC: | 81'1 |
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| ISSN on article: | 0165-0157 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-85308-2_12 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UNG:REP:JFVKQKNP |
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| Publication date in RUNG: | 20.02.2024 |
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