LTAG Analysis for Pied-Piping and Stranding of wh-Phrases
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In this paper we propose a syntactic and semantic analysis of complex questions. We consider questions involving pied piping and stranding and we propose elementary trees and semantic representations that allow to account for both constructions in a uniform way.
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