Vienna, June 2016.
Cremers' slides (experimental work on the interpretation of embedded questions)
Homework on partition semantics (pdf) Homework on partition semantics (doc)
SELECTED READINGS
Readings that are particularly recommended for this class are preceded by * These are readings which are likely to be general enough to serve as a good entry point to the topic.
*Paul Hagstrom, What questions mean, Glot International 7.7/8 (2003): 188-201.
Jeroen Groenendijk & Martin Stokhof, Partitioning Logical Space (Lecture Notes for ESSLLI 1990)
*Irene Heim, Interrogative Semantics and Karttunen's Semantics for `Know', Proceedings of IATL. Vol. 1. 1994.
Benjamin George, Mention-Some Readings, and NonReducibility, Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2013
*Spector & Egré, A Uniform Semantics for Embedded Interrogatives: An answer, not necesarily the answer. Synthese, doi: 10.1007/s11229-015-0722-4
*Nathan Klinedinst and Dan Rothschild, Exhaustivity in Questions with Non-Factives, Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011, doi:10.3765/sp.4.2
*Cremers & Chemla, A psycholinguistic study of the exhaustive readings of embedded questions, (prepublication version), Journal of Semantics (2014)
Sigrid Beck & Hotze Rullmann, A flexible approach to exhaustivity in questions, Natural Language Semantics 7.3 (1999): 249-298.
Yael Sharvit, Embedded Questions and `De Dicto' Readings, Natural Language Semantics 10.2 (2002): 97-123.
Ciardelli, Ivano, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen. Inquisitive semantics: a new notion of meaning. Language and Linguistics Compass7.9 (2013): 459-476.
Danny Fox & Martin Hackl, The Universal Density of Measurement
Márta Abrusán & Benjamin Spector, A Semantics for Degree Questions Based on Intervals: Negative Islands and their Obviation
Márta Abrusán, Presuppositional and Negative Islands: A Semantic Account