A Structured Witness Approach to Pair-List Answers of wh-Questions with Plural Definites
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| Publication date | 2024 |
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| Book title | Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics |
| Book subtitle | 20th International Conference, LENLS20, Osaka, Japan, November 18–20, 2023 : revised selected papers |
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| Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Pages (from-to) | 285-306 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Publisher | Cham: Springer |
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[14] shows that wh-questions with plural definites semantically induce pair-list answers contra [17, 30] and proposes an analysis in which plural definites may perform distributive quantification. However, this analysis blurs a boundary between distributive quantifiers and plural definites, making a wrong prediction about the number sensitivity of the pair-list answers of wh-questions with the latter. I propose an alternative in which wh-questions with plural definites may induce pair-list answers without distributive quantification. I offer an implementation with a simple question semantics with Dynamic Plural Logic [1], and its extension with Dynamic Plural Inquisitive Semantics [6, 26].
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| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60878-0_16 |
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