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Questions and answers: Semantics and logic

Year: 2003

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: I sketch a semantic interpretation of questions in first-order logic. Questions are interpreted as partitions of sets of possible worlds. The semantics I use is an update semantics. I discuss several notions of entailment and answerhood, and give the bare outlines of Balder ten Cate & Chung-chieh Shan’s syntactic characterization of these notions. Key words: semantics, logic, questions, answers 1

Authors: Groenendijk, J.A.G., Bernardi, R., Moortgat, M.

Institution: University of Amsterdam

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2103480237

FWCI: 2.261

Cites: 7

Cited by: 25

Related to: 10