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Yimei Xiang (Faculty) has a new paper out ‘online first’ in Natural Language Semantics.<\/p>\n

The paper can be freely accessed here: https:\/\/rdcu.be\/cd6Xg<\/a>. Details below.<\/p>\n

Congratulations Yimei!<\/p>\n

Xiang, Yimei. Higher-order readings of wh<\/i>-questions. Natural Language Semantics<\/i> (2021). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11050-020-09166-8<\/a><\/p>\n

Abstract <\/strong>In most cases, a wh<\/i>-question calls for an answer that names an entity in the set denoted by the extension of the wh<\/i>-complement. However, evidence from questions with necessity modals and questions with collective predicates argues that sometimes a wh<\/i>-question must be interpreted with a higher-order reading, in which this question calls for an answer that names a generalized quantifier. This paper investigates the distribution and compositional derivation of higher-order readings of wh<\/i>-questions. First, I argue that the generalized quantifiers that can serve as semantic answers to wh<\/i>-questions must be homogeneously positive. Next, on the distribution of higher-order readings, I observe that questions in which the wh<\/i>-complement is singular-marked or numeral-modified can be answered by elided disjunctions but not by conjunctions. I further present two ways to account for this disjunction\u2013conjunction asymmetry. In the uniform account, these questions admit disjunctions because disjunctions (but not conjunctions) may satisfy the atomicity requirement of singular-marking and the cardinality requirement of numeral modification. In the reconstruction account, the wh<\/i>-complement is syntactically reconstructed, which gives rise to local uniqueness and yields a contradiction for conjunctive answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yimei Xiang (Faculty) has a new paper out ‘online first’ in Natural Language Semantics. The paper can be freely accessed here: https:\/\/rdcu.be\/cd6Xg. Details below. Congratulations Yimei! Xiang, Yimei. 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