{"id":4454,"date":"2012-09-24T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2012-09-24T02:18:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T06:18:03","slug":"course-announcement-more-on-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/09\/24\/course-announcement-more-on-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Course announcement: &#8220;More on Questions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Question-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4455\" title=\"*How much does this truck not weigh?\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Question-photo.jpg\" alt=\"*How much does this truck not weigh?\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>24.S94: More on Questions<\/strong><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Danny Fox<\/strong><br clear='none'\/>\n<em>class website<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/24\/fa12\/24.S94\/index.html\">https:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/24\/fa12\/24.S94\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Times and locations:<\/em><br clear='none'\/>\nWeek 1, class 1 &amp; 2: Wednesday 9\/26 2:30-5:30pm; Friday 9\/28 2:00pm-5:00pm (32-D461)<br clear='none'\/>\nWeek 2, class 3 &amp; 4: Wednesday 10\/3 2:30-4:30pm; Friday 10\/5 2:00pm-5:00pm (32-D461)<br clear='none'\/>\nWeek 3, class 5 : Wednesday 10\/10 2:30-5:30pm (32-D461)<br clear='none'\/>\nWeek 3, class 6 : probably <em>Thursday<\/em> 10\/11 2:00-5:00 (or as arranged with class) (location TBA)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this class I will try to develop an argument for a particular treatment of pair-list readings in multiple wh-questions that I made in a 2010 seminar (taught with Irene and Kai).<\/p>\n<p>The starting point is Dayal\u0092s proposal that questions are associated with a maximality presupposition \u0096 the requirement that one true member of the Hamblin-denotation entail all true members. As Dayal shows, maximality accounts for uniqueness in simple singular wh questions (<em>Which boy came?<\/em> is associated with the inference that exactly one boy came). Dayal\u0092s proposal, which provides the basis for a family accounts of negative islands and related phenomena, fails to derive the pair list readings of multiple wh-questions, such as <em>Which boy read which book?<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I will try to argue that this problem can be resolved if multiple questions denote families of questions, derived from logical forms that obey Richard\u0092s tucking-in generalization. The rest of the class will investigate various issues that have a potential bearing on the proposal: issues pertaining to quantificational variability in questions, to pair-list readings that arise from normal quantification (e.g. <em>Which book did every boy read?<\/em>), and to the nature of superiority.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24.S94: More on Questions Danny Fox class website: https:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/24\/fa12\/24.S94\/index.html Times and locations: Week 1, class 1 &amp; 2: Wednesday 9\/26 2:30-5:30pm; Friday 9\/28 2:00pm-5:00pm (32-D461) Week 2, class 3 &amp; 4: Wednesday 10\/3 2:30-4:30pm; Friday 10\/5 2:00pm-5:00pm (32-D461) Week 3, class 5 : Wednesday 10\/10 2:30-5:30pm (32-D461) Week 3, class 6 : probably Thursday 10\/11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4484,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}