Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts

ISBN13: 9780199246526ISBN10: 0199246521 Paperback, 320 pages

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Linguists have realized for some time that predicates of the "know" and "wonder" classes behave differently in semantic terms with respect to their interrogative complements, but have not so far fully understood how or why. This book seeks to explore and to provide solutions to this and to related problems in explaining the meaning and grammar of embedded interrogatives and the predicates that take interrogative complements (indirect questions and how they are answered).

Product Details

320 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-924652-6ISBN10: 0-19-924652-1

About the Author(s)

Utpal Lahiri is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of California, Irvine. Having obtained his doctorate from MIT in 1991, he was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Connecticut (1992), and Lecturer at MIT (1991-2) before taking up his present position.

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