A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity
<|reference_start|>A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity: Wh-phrases in English can appear both raised and in-situ. However, only in-situ wh-phrases can take semantic scope beyond the immediately enclosing clause. I present a denotational semantics of interrogatives that naturally accounts for these two properties. It neither invokes movement or economy, nor posits lexical ambiguity between raised and in-situ occurrences of the same wh-phrase. My analysis is based on the concept of continuations. It uses a novel type system for higher-order continuations to handle wide-scope wh-phrases while remaining strictly compositional. This treatment sheds light on the combinatorics of interrogatives as well as other kinds of so-called A'-movement.<|reference_end|>
@article{shan2002a,
    title={A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's
  ambiguity},
    author={Chung-chieh Shan (Harvard University)},
    journal={Proceedings of SALT XII: Semantics and Linguistic Theory, ed.
  Brendan Jackson, 246-265 (2002)},
    year={2002},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0207070},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.PL}
}