On the Semantics of Wh-Clauses

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Focusing on the semantics of wh-clauses, the author presents a logicosemantic analysis that interprets wh-phrases as open sentences. The book reviews contemporary theories regarding the truth-conditional interpretation of questions and explores the similarities between wh-phrases and indefinite noun phrases. In the final chapter, the author addresses asymmetries between these two categories while engaging with and refuting various challenges to the proposed analysis, offering a comprehensive exploration of these linguistic phenomena.