Abstract
he 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 seman-tic contribution of an operator merging with the wh-complement (Dayal, 1996) or of the embedding predicate (Uegaki, 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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-41 |
| Journal | Linguistics and Philosophy |
| Volume | n/a |
| Early online date | 8 Sep 2020 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 8 Sep 2020 |
Keywords
- questions
- embedded questions
- wh-complements
- presupposition of questions
- uniqueness presupposition
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Wataru Uegaki
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Lecturer in Semantics
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