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Witness protection: A unified semantics for additive particles in assertions and questions<\/strong><\/p>\n

The English additive particle also<\/em> can appear in assertions and polar questions, but not in canonical wh<\/em>-questions:<\/p>\n

(1) \u00a0Mary danced all night.
\na. John also<\/strong> danced.
\nb. Did John<\/strong> also dance?
\nc. #Who also<\/strong> danced?<\/p>\n

It has been suggested that when also<\/em> appears in a wh<\/em>-question, it triggers a so-called showmaster interpretation<\/em> (Umbach, 2012), in which the speaker already has a certain answer in mind when asking the question.<\/p>\n

In this talk, I will challenge this generalization based on a previously unnoticed class of questions, which I call summoning questions<\/em>. To account for the resulting more differentiated empirical picture, I will generalize Beaver and Clark\u2019s (2008) QUD-based account of additive particles by lifting it to an inquisitive semantics setting (Ciardelli et al., 2019). This allows us to capture the contribution of also<\/em> in assertions and questions in a unified way, while still accounting for its distributional restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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