Concealed Questions

by Ilaria Frana

This book presents a novel analysis of concealed-question constructions, reports of a mental attitude in which part of a sentence looks like a nominal complement (e.g. Eve's phone number in Adam knows Eve's phone number), but is interpreted as an indirect question (Adam knows what Eve's phone number is). Such constructions are puzzling in that they raise the question of how their meaning derives from their constituent parts. In particular, how a nominal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199670927
• ISBN13: 9780199670925
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.3"