A uniform semantics for embedded interrogatives: an answer, not necessarily the answer
A uniform semantics for embedded interrogatives: an answer, not necessarily the answer
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嵌入式疑问词的统一语义：答案，不一定是答案
作者：
Benjamin Spector;P. Égré
我们的论文解决了以下问题：对于所有使用陈述式和疑问式补语的谓语P (Lahiri 2002年类型学意义上的响应式谓语，参见Lahiri，嵌入式语境中的问答，OUP, 2002)，是否存在一个从P-陈述式从句结构的意义来描述P-疑问从句结构意义的一般特征？根据我们的解释，如果P是一个响应谓词，而Q是嵌入在P之下的一个问题，那么“P + Q”的意义，非正式地说，就是“在P与Q的某个潜在完整答案所表达的关系中”。我们表明，这一规则允许我们根据嵌入的动词是否为真实的，推导出嵌入问题的真实和非真实的阅读，并提供新的经验证据来支持这种概括。然后，我们丰富了我们的基本建议，以解释嵌入动词引起的预设，以及生成嵌入问题的中间详尽阅读（klindinst和Rothschild in Semant Pragmat 4:1 - 23,2011）。
Our paper addresses the following question: Is there a general characterization, for all predicates P that take both declarative and interrogative complements (responsive predicates in the sense of Lahiri’s 2002 typology, see Lahiri, Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts, OUP, 2002), of the meaning of the P-interrogative clause construction in terms of the meaning of the P-declarative clause construction? On our account, if P is a responsive predicate and Q a question embedded under P, then the meaning of ‘P + Q’ is, informally, “to be in the relation expressed by P to some potential complete answer to Q”. We show that this rule allows us to derive veridical and non-veridical readings of embedded questions, depending on whether the embedding verb is veridical or not, and provide novel empirical evidence supporting the generalization. We then enrich our basic proposal to account for the presuppositions induced by the embedding verbs, as well as for the generation of intermediate exhaustive readings of embedded questions (Klinedinst and Rothschild in Semant Pragmat 4:1–23, 2011).