Wh-islands in degree questions
A semantic approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19544142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Márta Abrusán (0000-0002-9561-9177, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semantics and Pragmatics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1937-8912 • E-ISSN: 1937-8912 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/sp.4.5 |
| OpenAlex | W2039880516 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 19 |
It is proposed that wh-islands with degree questions are unacceptable because they cannot be given a most informative true answer. Wh-islands thus are shown to be similar to other cases of weak islands which have been argued to result from Maximization Failure, in particular negative islands (cf. Fox & Hackl 2007). Permanent DOI link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.4.5 BibTeX info
Linguistics · Natural language processing · Physics · Computer Science · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Mathematics · Philosophy · semigroups and automata theory · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 0.45 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |