Interpreting concealed questions

Interpreting concealed questions. Aloni, M. & Roelofsen, F. Linguistics and Philosophy, 34(5):443–478, 2011.

Concealed questions are determiner phrases that are naturally paraphrased as embedded questions (e.g., John knows the capital of Italy ≈ John knows what the capital of Italy is). This paper offers a novel account of the interpretation of concealed questions, which assumes that an entity-denoting expression α may be type-shifted into an expression ?z.P(α), where P is a contextually determined property, and z ranges over a contextually determined domain of individual concepts. Different resolutions of P and the domain of z yield a wide range of concealed question interpretations, some of which were not noted previously. On the other hand, principled constraints on the resolution process prevent overgeneration.

@article{AloniRoelofsen:11,
	abstract = {Concealed questions are determiner phrases that are naturally paraphrased as embedded questions (e.g., John knows the capital of Italy ≈ John knows what the capital of Italy is). This paper offers a novel account of the interpretation of concealed questions, which assumes that an entity-denoting expression α may be type-shifted into an expression ?z.P(α), where P is a contextually determined property, and z ranges over a contextually determined domain of individual concepts. Different resolutions of P and the domain of z yield a wide range of concealed question interpretations, some of which were not noted previously. On the other hand, principled constraints on the resolution process prevent overgeneration.},
	author = {Aloni, Maria and Roelofsen, Floris},
	date-modified = {2021-08-17 00:00:00 +0000},
	doi = {10.1007/s10988-011-9102-9},
	journal = {Linguistics and Philosophy},
	keywords = {concealed questions,quantification,conceptual covers,questions,theoretical linguistics, conceptual covers, ellipsis},
	mendeley-tags = {theoretical linguistics},
	number = {5},
	pages = {443--478},
	title = {{Interpreting concealed questions}},
	url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/j50564732g8v3707/},
	volume = {34},
	year = {2011},
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/j50564732g8v3707/},
	Bdsk-Url-2 = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-011-9102-9}}

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