Constituent Questions: The Syntax and Semantics of Questions with Special Reference to Swedish: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, cartea 27

I. Introduction.- 1. Theoretical and Methodological Issues.- 2. Unbounded Dependencies.- 3. Questions in Swedish.- 4. The Semantics of Questions.- 5. Extensions of the Present Study.- Notes.- II. Recent Approaches to Unbounded Dependencies.- 0. Introduction.- 1. Short Overview of Relevant Data from Swedish.- 2. Arguments for Transformations.- 3. Generalized Phrase-Structure Grammars.- 4. Cooper’s Proposal.- 5. Phrase Linking Grammars.- 6. Unbounded Dependencies in the Government-Binding Framework.- 7. Choosing a Framework.- Notes.- III. A Frame Work for Swedish.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Format of Rules.- 3. Quantification.- 4. Questions.- 5. Pronouns.- 6. Gaps.- 7. Constraining the Framework.- 8. Summary.- Notes.- IV. The Interprentaion of Questions.- 1. Some Previous Approaches to Questions.- 2. Quantifying Into Questions.- 3. Some Arguments Against Quantifying Into Questions.- 4. A Relational Approach to Interrogative Quantifiers.- 5. Interaction Between Interrogative Quantifiers and Other Quantifiers.- 6. The Internal Structure of Interrogative Constituents.- 7. Multiple WH Questions.- 8. Questions Involving Other Categories.- 9. An Alternative Approach.- 10. Conclusion.- Notes.- V. A Comparison with EST-GB.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Semantic Interpretation in Transformational Grammar.- 3. Characterizing wh-Movement.- 4. wh-Interpretation and Reconstruction at LF.- 5. Bound Anaphors in Moved Constituents.- 6. Higginbotham and May’s Theory of Questions.- Notes.- VI. Restricting the Interpretation of Pronouns.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Disjoint Reference and Non-Coreference.- 3. Cross-over.- Notes.- VII. Theorotical Postcript.- 1. Linked Trees.- 2. Storage.- 3. Relational Readings.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.