Structural Asymmetry in Question/Quantifier Interactions

Achimova, Asya; Déprez, Viviane; Musolino, Julien

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91566-1_2

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“…When the wh-phrase is the subject, as in (15), only an individual answer can be given; a pair-list answer is not supported. 5 4 The true empirical picture is more nuanced than this presentation suggests; Achimova, Déprez & Musolino (2014) provide experimental evidence that, although robust, the subjectobject asymmetry is subject to variation, with some participants seeming to lack it entirely. 5 For Chierchia, the significance of this asymmetry is in the correlation it establishes between pair-list answers and functional answers.…”

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Pair-list answers to questions with plural definites

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2023

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Questions with plural definites (QPDs) can receive responses that take the form of a pair-list. Following Dayal (in Srivastav 1992, Dayal 1996 and Krifka (1992), these are generally treated not as genuine pair-list answers, but as pragmatically-motivated elaborations on underlyingly cumulative answers. I present new evidence against this view: pair-list answers can be available even in the absence of a corresponding felicitous cumulative answer. I argue that the pair-list form of such answers must be represented in the semantics, and that QPDs must permit both the "cumulationand-elaboration" strategy and a genuine pair-list parse.

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Pair-list answers to questions with plural definites

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2023

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Structural Asymmetry in Question/Quantifier Interactions

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