Questions / Veneeta Dayal.

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text synthesises and integrates 40 years of research on the semantics of questions and its interface with pragmatics and syntax. It is a resource for the novice and expert alike, and appeals to a variety of readers without compromising depth and breadth of coverage.

Specialized.

Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2016).

Cover; Questions; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; General preface; Acknowledgments; 1: Introducing questions and answers; 1.1 What is a question?; 1.2 What do questions mean?; 1.2.1 The syntax-semantics map; 1.2.2 Question-answer congruence; 1.2.3 Types of answers; 1.3 Must wh expressions move?; 1.3.1 Doing without wh movement; 1.3.2 Delimiting syntactic discussion; 1.4 Roadmap to the book; 2: A theory of questions and answers; 2.1 The classics; 2.1.1 Questions as sets of propositions; 2.1.2 Questions as sets of true propositions; 2.1.3 Questions as partitions.

2.1.4 Advantages of questions as partitions2.1.5 Section summary; 2.2 Answerhood operators; 2.2.1 Exhaustiveness and Ans-H; 2.2.2 Truth and Ans-DPRELIM; 2.2.3 Beyond truth; 2.2.4 Section summary; 2.3 Maximality in question-answer paradigms; 2.3.1 Number in wh expressions; 2.3.2 Maximality in wh expressions; 2.3.3 Maximality and Ans-D; 2.3.4 Existential presupposition and Ans-D; 2.3.5 Section summary; 2.4 The baseline theory; 3: Exhaustive and non-exhaustive answers; 3.1 The weak-strong distinction in exhaustive answers; 3.1.1 The agent, the speaker, and the question under embedding.

3.1.2 The addressee and the question posed3.1.3 Domain certainty and complementation; 3.1.4 Alternative routes to exhaustiveness; 3.1.5 Section summary; 3.2 Non-exhaustive answers; 3.2.1 The tourist and the entrepreneur; 3.2.2 Mono-morphemic vs. complex wh phrases; 3.2.3 Priority modals; 3.2.4 Theoretical implications; 3.2.5 Section summary; 3.3 Selecting for weak, strong, or non-exhaustiveness; 3.3.1 Embedding predicates; 3.3.2 NPI licensing and exhaustiveness; 3.3.3 Problematic NPIs; 3.3.4 Section summary; 3.4 Exhaustiveness in the baseline theory.

4: Single-pair, pair-list, and functional answers4.1 Pair-list and functional answers; 4.1.1 Lists and multiple constituent questions; 4.1.2 Lists and questions with quantifiers; 4.1.3 Lists and questions with plural definites; 4.1.4 Section summary; 4.2 The function-based approach to pair-list answers; 4.2.1 Quantifying over Skolem functions; 4.2.2 Incorporating structural sensitivity; 4.2.3 Tapping into witness sets; 4.2.4 Questions with indefinites; 4.2.5 Section summary; 4.3 Functionality in pair-list answers; 4.3.1 Functionality through functional absorption.

4.3.2 Higher order echo questions4.3.3 Functionality through higher order questions; 4.3.4 Section summary; 4.4 Further issues; 4.4.1 The proper place of lifted questions; 4.4.2 Presuppositionality and lists; 4.4.3 Quantifying into question acts; 4.4.4 Section summary; 4.5 Functions and lists in the baseline theory; 5: Embedded questions; 5.1 Close kin of interrogatives; 5.1.1 Free relatives and interrogatives; 5.1.2 Exclamatives and interrogatives; 5.1.3 Concealed questions and interrogatives; 5.1.4 Section summary; 5.2 Selection; 5.2.1 C-selection and s-selection.

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