A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity

Details A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity

2002-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/cs/0207070v2

Proceedings of SALT XII: Semantics and Linguistic Theory, ed. Brendan Jackson, 246-265 (2002)

Computer Science

Computation and Language

20 pages; typo fixed

Scientific paper

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.

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