The Role of Topic-Hood in Multiple-Wh Question Semantics

Paul M. Willis · 2008

In investigating the semantics of multiple-Wh questions, a frequently pursued methodology is to view them as special cases of single-Wh questions, and to develop an umbrella model to account for both; this approach is taken by e.g. Karttunen (1977) and Groenendijk & Stokhof (1984). One well founded motivation for this strategy is that the types of answers appropriate to multiple-Wh questions

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