MoL-2010-12: Shaheen, Jonathan (2010) Relevance-Based Partition Semantics for Why-Questions. [Report]
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This work argues that partition semantics can be extended to cover
why-questions and their answers, and then develops such an
extension. Building on Jeroen Groenendijk’s Logic of Interrogation and
incorporating a theory of why-questions initially put forward by Bas
van Fraassen, it provides a unified notion of contextual answerhood
for both why-questions and constituent questions. Non-constructive and
constructive versions of the semantics are indicated, their
meta-logical features are briefly explored, and two applications for
the semantics are described.
| Item Type: | Report |
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| Report Nr: | MoL-2010-12 |
| Series Name: | Master of Logic Thesis (MoL) Series |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2016 14:38 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2016 14:38 |
| URI: | https://eprints.illc.uva.nl/id/eprint/837 |
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