1st Edition
Intervention Effects and Topic Interpretation A Study of Scopal Constraints on Questions
By Dawei Jin
Copyright 2027
192 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book provides a new take on the longstanding puzzle of intervention effects in questions whereby specific scopal expressions block the interpretation of wh-elements when they occupy a particular position in the semantic representation.
Its central argument is that intervention effects are not a homogeneous phenomenon with a uniform underlying structure mapped to a single interpretive... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Data and generalization 3. Previous approaches 4. Theory 5. Experiments 6. Conclusion
Biography
Dawei Jin graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a PhD in linguistics. He is Associate Professor at the Center for International Chinese Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is interested in the syntax-semantics interface and, in particular, in how contradiction arises as meaning builds up and its implications for the issue of ungrammaticality.
