Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780198241331 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 332 str.

Utpal Lahiri

Opis

Linguists have realized for some time that predicates of the 'know' and 'wonder' classes behave differently in semantic terms with respect to their interrogative complements, but have not so far fully understood how or why. This book seeks to explore and to provide solutions to this and to related problems in explaining the meaning and grammar of embedded interrogatives and the predicates that take interrogative complements (indirect questions and how they are answered).

Recenzje

I have never seen anyone walk into such a thicket of formalisms overgrown on so wide a terrain of phenomena and emerge with such a salutary result, with the dragon slain. Along the way is a pageant of smart refutations, elegant formulations, charity towards opponents and some new empirical discovery. Publication will be an important occasion. The book's simplifying vision of the semantics of interrogatives promises to finally make the subject fit for introductory graduate courses.

O autorze

Utpal Lahiri is Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at MIT. Having obtained his doctorate from MIT in 1991, he was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Connecticut, Lecturer at MIT, and Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine.