Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Cross-Linguistic Semantics for Questions

  • Published:
Linguistics and Philosophy Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Authier, J.-M.: 1992, ‘Iterated CPs and Embedded Topicalization’, Linguistic Inquiry 23, 329–336.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bach, F., and R. Cooper: 1978, ‘The NP-S Analysis of Relative Clauses and Compositional Semantics’, Linguistics and Philosophy 2, 145–150.

    Google Scholar 

  • Baker, C. L.: 1968, Indirect Questions in English, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana.

    Google Scholar 

  • Baker, M.: 1988, Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bergsland, K.: 1955, A Grammatical Outline of the Eskimo Language of West Greenland. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oslo, Norway.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bittner, M.: 1994a, Case, Scope, and Binding, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bittner, M.: 1994b, ‘Cross-Linguistic Semantics’, Linguistics and Philosophy 17, 57–108.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bittner, M.: 1996a, ‘Concealed Causatives’, ms., Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ. [Submitted to Natural Language Semantics, October 1996.]

    Google Scholar 

  • Bittner, M.: 1996b, ‘Correlatives as Cross-Categorial Descriptions’, ms., Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bittner, M. and K. Hale: 1996a, ‘The Structural Determination of Case and Agreement’, Linguistic Inquiry 27, 1–68.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bittner, M. and K. Hale: 1996b, ‘Ergativity: Toward a Theory of a Heterogeneous Class’, Linguistic Inquiry 27, 531–604.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bolinger, D.: 1978, ‘Asking More than One Thing at a Time’, in H. Hiz (ed.), Questions, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, pp. 107–150.

    Google Scholar 

  • Carlson, G.: 1987, ‘Same and Different: Some Consequences for Syntax and Semantics’, Linguistics and Philosophy 10, 531–566.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chierchia, G.: 1991, ‘Functional WH and Weak Crossover’, Proceedings of WCCFL 10, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 75–90.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chierchia, G.: 1992, ‘Questions with Quantifiers’, Natural Language Semantics 1, 181–234.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chomsky, N.: 1973, ‘Conditions on Transformations’, in S. R. Anderson and P. Kiparsky (eds.), A Festschrift for Morris Halle, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chomsky, N.: 1976, ‘Conditions on Rules of Grammar’, Linguistic Analysis 2, 303–351.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chomsky, N.: 1981, Lectures on Government and Binding, Foris, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chomsky, N.: 1986a, Barriers, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chomsky, N.: 1986b, Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use, Praeger, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Church, A.: 1940, ‘A Formulation of the Simple Theory of Types’, The Journal of Symbolic Logic 5, 56–68.

    Google Scholar 

  • Comorovski, I.: 1989, Discourse and the Syntax and Multiple Constituent Questions, Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca.

    Google Scholar 

  • Comorovski, I.: 1996, Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cooper, R.: 1983, Quantification and Syntactic Theory, D. Reidel, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dayal (Srivastav), V.: 1994, ‘Scope Marking as Indirect WH-Dependency’, Natural Language Semantics 2, 137–170.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dayal, V.: 1996, Locality in WH Quantification: Questions and Relative Clauses in Hindi, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Engdahl, E.: 1980, The Syntax and Semantics of Questions in Swedish, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

  • Engdahl, E.: 1982, ‘Constituent Questions, Topicalization, and Surface Structure Interpretation’, Proceedings of WCCFL 1, Stanford University, CSLI Publications, pp. 256–267.

  • Engdahl, E.: 1986, Constituent Questions: The Syntax and Semantics of Questions with Special Reference to Swedish, D. Reidel, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gazdar, G.: 1980, ‘A Cross-Categorial Semantics for Coordination’, Linguistics and Philosophy 3, 407–410.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goldberg, A.: 1995, Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

    Google Scholar 

  • Groenendijk, J. and M. Stokhof: 1982, ‘Semantic Analysis of Wh-Complements’, Linguistics and Philosophy 5, 175–234.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hamblin, C. L.: 1958, ‘Questions’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 36, 159–168.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hamblin, C. L.: 1973, ‘Questions in Montague English’, Foundations of Language 10, 41–53.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heim, I.: 1982, The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Antherst.

  • Heim, I.: 1994, ‘Interrogative Complements of Know’, Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference and the Workshop on Discourse, The Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL 1), Jerusalem, pp. 128–144.

    Google Scholar 

  • Higginbotham, J.: 1980, ‘Pronouns and Bound Variables’, Linguistic Inquiry 11, 395–430.

    Google Scholar 

  • Higginbotham, J. and R. May: 1980, ‘Questions, Quantifiers, and Crossing’, The Linguistic Review 1, 41–80.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hintikka, J.: 1969, ‘Semantics for Propositional Attitudes’, in J. W. Davis (ed.), Philosophical Logic, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, pp. 21–45.

    Google Scholar 

  • Huang, J. C.-T.: 1982, Logical Relations in Chinese and the Theory of Grammar, Ph.D. dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jacobson, P.: 1992, ‘Antecedent Contained Deletion in a Variable-Free Semantics’, Proceedings from SALT 2. Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, pp. 193–214.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jacobson, P.: 1994, ‘Binding Connectivity in Copular Sentences’, Proceedings from SALT 4. DMLL Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca, pp. 161–178.

    Google Scholar 

  • Janssen, T.: 1983, Foundations and Applications of Montague Grammar, Ph.D. dissertation, Mathematical Centre, Amsterdam.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kaplan, D.: 1978, ‘On the Logie of Demonstratives’, Journal of Philosophical Logic 8, 81–98.

    Google Scholar 

  • Karttunen, L.: 1977, ‘Syntax and Semantics of Questions’, Linguistics and Philosophy 1, 3–44.

    Google Scholar 

  • Karttunen, L. and S. Peters: 1980, ‘Interrogative Quantifiers’, in Ch. Rohrer (ed.), Time, Tense, and Quantifiers, Max Niemeyer, Tübingen, pp. 181–205.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kayne, R. S.: 1981, ‘ECP Extensions’, Linguistic Inquiry 12, 93–133.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kayne, R. S.: 1984, Connectedness and Binary Branching, Foris, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Keenan, E.: 1987, ‘Unreducible n-ary Quantifiers in Natural Language’, in P. Gärdenfors (ed.), Generalized Quantifiers, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, pp. 109–150.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kiss, K.: 1993, ‘Wh-Movement and Specificity’, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 11, 85–120.

    Google Scholar 

  • Klein, E. and I. A. Sag: 1985, ‘Type-Driven Translation’, Linguistics and Philosophy 8, 163–202.

    Google Scholar 

  • Koopman, H. and D. Sportiche: 1982, ‘Variables and the Bijection Principle’, The Linguistic Review 2, 135–170.

    Google Scholar 

  • Koopman, H. and D. Sportiche: 1985, ‘Theta Theory and Extraction’, Glow Newsletter 14, 57–58.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kratzer, A.: 1991, ‘The Representation of Focus’, in A. von Stechow and D. Wunderlich (eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 825–834.

    Google Scholar 

  • Krifka, M.: 1992, ‘Definite NPs Aren't Quantifiers’, Linguistic Inquiry 23, 156–63.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lahiri, U.: 1991, Embedded Interrogatives and Predicates that Embed Them, Ph.D. dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Larson, R.: 1985, ‘On the Syntax of Disjunction Scope’, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 3, 217–264.

    Google Scholar 

  • Larson, R.: 1988, ‘On the Double Object Construction’, Linguistic Inquiry 19, 335–394.

    Google Scholar 

  • Link, G.: 1983, ‘The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms: A Lattice-Theoretical Approach’, in R. Bäuerle et al. (eds.), Meaning, Use and the Interpretation of Language, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mahajan, A.: 1990, The A/A′ Distinction and Movement Theory, Ph.D. dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • May, R.: 1977, The Grammar of Quantification, Ph.D. dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mithun, M.: 1984, ‘The Evolution of Noun Incorporation’, Language 60, 847–94.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mithun, M.: 1986, ‘On the Nature of Noun Incorporation’, Language 62, 32–37.

    Google Scholar 

  • Moltmann, F.: 1992, ‘Reciprocals and Same/Different: Towards a Semantic Analysis’, Linguistics and Philosophy 15, 411–462.

    Google Scholar 

  • Montague, R.: 1973, ‘The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English’, in J. Hintikka et al. (eds.), Approaches to Natural Language: Proceedings of the 1970 Stanford Workshop on Grammar and Semantics, D. Reidel, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nishigauchi, T.: 1990, Quantification in the Theory of Grammar, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Partee, B.: 1986, ‘Ambiguous Pseudoclefts with Unambiguous Be’, in S. Berman et al. (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 16, GLSA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, pp. 354–366.

  • Partee, B.: 1987, ‘Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-Shifting Principles’, in J. Groenendijk et al. (eds.), Studies in Discourse Representation Theory and the Theory of Generalized Quantifiers, Foris, Dordrecht, pp. 115–144.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pope, E.: 1976, Questions and Answers in English, Mouton, The Hague.

    Google Scholar 

  • Quine, W.: 1967, The Ways of Paradox, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Riemsdijk, H. van: 1983, ‘Correspondence Effects and the Empty Category Principle’, Tilburg Papers in Language and Literature.

  • Riemsdijk, H. van and E. Williams: 1986, Introduction to the Theory of Grammar, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rischel, J.: 1972, ‘Derivation as a Syntactic Process in Greenlandic’, in F. Kiefer (ed.), Derivational Processes, Research Group for Quantitative Linguistics, Stockholm, pp. 60–73.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rooth, M.: 1985, Association with Focus, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

  • Rooth, M. and B. Partee: 1982, ‘Conjunction, Type Ambiguity, and Wide Scope Or’, Proceedings of WCCFL 1, Stanford University, California, CSLI Publications, pp. 353–362.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosen, S.: 1989, ‘Two Types of Noun Incorporation: A Lexical Analysis’, Language 65, 294–217.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ross, J. R.: 1967, Constaints on Variables in Syntax, Ph.D. dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sadock, J.: 1986, ‘Some Notes on Noun Incorporation’, Language 62, 19–31.

    Google Scholar 

  • Safir, K.: 1986, ‘Relative Clauses in a Theory of Binding and Levels’, Linguistic Inquiry 17, 663–690.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schauber Kaufman, E.: 1975, Theoretical Responses to Navajo Questions, Ph.D. dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schwarzschild, R.: 1996, Pluralities, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sharvit, Y.: 1996, ‘Functional Traces and Indirect Binding’, presented at SALT6, Rutgers, New Brunswick.

  • Sharvy, R.: 1980, ‘A More General Theory of Definite Descriptions’, The Philosophical Review 89, 607–624.

    Google Scholar 

  • Srivastav (Dayal), V.: 1992, ‘Two Types of University Terms in Questions’, in Proceedings of NELS 22, GLSA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, pp. 443–458.

  • Stowell, T.: 1981, Origins of Phrase Structure, Ph.D. dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stowell, T.: 1989, ‘Subjects, Specifiers, and X-Bar Theory’, in M. Baltin and A. Kroch (eds.), Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 232–262.

    Google Scholar 

  • Szabolcsi, A.: 1993, ‘Quantifiers in Pair-List Questions and the Nonuniformity of Quantification’, Proceedings of the Ninth Amsterdam Colloquium.

  • Vikner, S.: 1994, ‘Finite Verb Movement in Scandinavian Embedded Clauses’, in D. Lightfoot and N. Hornstein (eds.), Verb Movement, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, pp. 117–148.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wachowicz, K.: 1974, On the Syntax and Semantics of Multiple Questions, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, Austin.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wachowicz, K.: 1975, ‘Multiple Questions’, Linguistica Silesiana 1, 145–151.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wahba, W.: 1992, ‘LF Movement in Iraqi Arabic’, in J. C.-T. Huang and R. May (eds.), Logical Structure and Linguistic Structure, Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 253–276.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wasow, T.: 1972, Anaphoric Relations in English, Ph.D. dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wasow, T.: 1979, Anaphora in Generative Grammar, E. Story Scientia, Ghent.

    Google Scholar 

  • Watanabe, A.: 1993, ‘Larsonian CP Recursion, Factive Complements, and Selection’, Proceedings of NELS 23, Vol. 2, GLSA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, pp. 523–537.

  • Williams, E.: 1977, ‘Across-the-board Application of Rules’, Linguistic Inquiry 8, 419–423.

    Google Scholar 

  • Williams, E.: 1978, ‘Across-the-board Rule Application’, Linguistic Inquiry 9, 31–43.

    Google Scholar 

  • Williamson, J.: 1984, Studies in Lakhota Grammar, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego.

    Google Scholar 

  • Zimmermann, E.: 1992, ‘On the Proper Treatment of Opacity in Certain Verbs’, Natural Language Semantics 1, 149–180.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Linguistics Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, 18 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ, 08903, U.S.A

    Maria Bittner

Authors
  1. Maria Bittner
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Bittner, M. Cross-Linguistic Semantics for Questions. Linguistics and Philosophy 21, 1–82 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005313305414

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005313305414

Keywords

Search

Navigation