The existential/uniqueness presupposition of wh-complements projects from the answers

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ID21462003
AutoresWataru Uegaki (0000-0003-3464-9601, University of Edinburgh, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen44
Número4
Páginas911-951
Fecha de publicación2021-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics and Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0165-0157 • E-ISSN: 1573-0549
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10988-020-09309-4
OpenAlexW3084269947
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas30

The projection pattern of the existential/uniqueness presupposition of a wh -complement varies depending on the predicate that embeds it. This variation poses problems for existing accounts that treat the presupposition as a semantic contribution of an operator merging with the wh -complement (Dayal in Locality in Wh-quantification: questions and relative clauses in Hindi. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1996) or of the embedding predicate (Uegaki in Interpreting questions under attitudes. Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD dissertation, Cambridge, 2015). I propose that the problems can be solved if the existential/uniqueness presupposition is contributed by the propositions corresponding to the answers of the embedded question, under the Hamblin/Karttunen semantics for questions

Epistemology · Existentialism · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Presupposition · Uniqueness · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Mathematics · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation