An Interval-Based Semantics for Degree Questions: Negative Islands and Their Obviation
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The goal of this paper is to argue for a new approach to the semantics of degree questions. According to the standard analysis (see, among others, Rullmann 1995 and Beck & Rullmann 1997), a degree question’s LF contains a variable that ranges over individual degrees and is bound by the degree-question operator how. In contrast with this, we will claim that the variable which is bound by the degree-question operator how does not range over individual degrees but over intervals of degrees, by analogy with Schwarzschild & Wilkinson’s (2002) proposal regarding the semantics of comparative clauses. In other words, while in the standard view, a sentence such as (1) corresponds to the (informal) logical form given in (2-a), we will assume that the right representation is the one given informally in (2-b):
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