An Interval-Based Semantics for DegreeQuestions: Negative Islands and Their Obviation
Márta Abrusán, Benjamin Spector · 2008
The goal of this paper is to argue for a new approach to the semantics of degree questions. According to the standard analysis (see, among others, Rullmann 1995 and Beck & Rullmann 1997), a degree question’s LF contains a variable that ranges over individual degrees and is bound by the degree-question operator how. In contrast with this, we will claim that the variable which is bound by the degree-question