When additive particles can associate with wh-phrases

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Authors
Publication date 2019
Host editors
  • M.T. Espinal
  • E. Castroviejo
  • M. Leonetti
  • L. McNally
  • C. Real-Puigdollers
Book title Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781078189743
Event Sinn und Bedeutung 23
Volume | Issue number 2
Pages (from-to) 345-362
Publisher Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract The distribution of certain additive particles is restricted. It has been suggested that in wh-questions they can only associate with the wh-phrase if the question receives a showmaster interpretation (Umbach, 2012). I present novel data challenging this generalization and account for these data by lifting Beaver and Clark (2008)’s QUD-based account of additive particles to an inquisitive semantics setting, so that it captures the contribution of additive particles in assertions, polar questions and wh-questions.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2019.v23i2.618
Published at https://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/Tg3ZGI2M/Proceedings23.html
Other links https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/issue/view/26
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