Questions and answers: Semantics and logic
Jeroen Groenendijk, R. Bernardi, M. Moortgat · 2003
I sketch a semantic interpretation of questions in first-order logic. Questions are interpreted as partitions of sets of possible worlds. The semantics I use is an update semantics. I discuss several notions of entailment and answerhood, and give the bare outlines of Balder ten Cate & Chung-chieh Shan’s syntactic characterization of these notions. Key words: semantics, logic, questions, answers 1