Contrastive-Focus and Interpretations of a Wh-Phrase Scope

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Young-roung Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제32호, 69~87쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2003.06.01

영문 초록

This paper aims to examine the logical and semantic meanings of wh-movement in English, by taking up individual and pair-list readings available in a sentence in which a quantifier like everyone is contained. Not following the movement hypotheses, I instead take the argument by Rooth (1992, 1996) and Ramchand (1996). I assume that a wh-phrase is contrastive-focused and a contrastive-focused phrase provides a set of relevant things, which contains the meaning of wh-questions. I claim that to derive a correct meaning related to the scope of wh-phrases, wh-movement is not necessarily required. This paper also considers the syntactic-semantic derivations of wh-questions in English, to find out an alternative method of the interpretations of wh-phrases.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Relative Scopes of Wh-phrases and Quantifiers

3. C-Focus and Wh-Phrase

4. Conclusion

키워드

Wh-movement Contrastive-focus Semantic Derivations Scope Quantifiers Individual/Pair-list Readings Propositions.