A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity
| dc.creator | Shan, Chung-chieh | |
| dc.date | 2002-07-18 | |
| dc.date | 2003-07-25 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:18:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:18:42Z | |
| dc.description | Wh-phrases in English can appear both raised and in-situ. However, only in-situ wh-phrases can take semantic scope beyond the immediately enclosing clause. I present a denotational semantics of interrogatives that naturally accounts for these two properties. It neither invokes movement or economy, nor posits lexical ambiguity between raised and in-situ occurrences of the same wh-phrase. My analysis is based on the concept of continuations. It uses a novel type system for higher-order continuations to handle wide-scope wh-phrases while remaining strictly compositional. This treatment sheds light on the combinatorics of interrogatives as well as other kinds of so-called A'-movement. | |
| dc.description | 20 pages; typo fixed | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0207070 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0207070 | |
| dc.identifier | Proceedings of SALT XII: Semantics and Linguistic Theory, ed. Brendan Jackson, 246-265 (2002) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/31219 | |
| dc.subject | Computation and Language | |
| dc.subject | Programming Languages | |
| dc.subject | I.2.7 | |
| dc.title | A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity | |
| dc.type | text |