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Logic Journal of IGPL 2003 11(4):419-434; doi:10.1093/jigpal/11.4.419
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Original Article

Generalized Quantifiers in Declarative and Interrogative Sentences

Raffaella Bernardi1 and Richard Moot2

1 UiL OTS, Utrecht University, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, NL, E-mail: Raffaella.Bernardi{at}let.uu.nl 2 UiL OTS, Utrecht University, Trans, 10 3512 JK Utrecht, NL, E-mail: Richard.Moot{at}let.uu.nl

In this paper we present a logical system able to compute the semantics of both declarative and interrogative sentences. Our proposed analysis takes place at both the sentential and at the discourse level. We use syntactic inference on the sentential level for declarative sentences, while the discourse level comes into play for our treatment of questions. Our formalisation uses a type logic sensitive to both the syntactic and semantic properties of natural language. We will show how an account of the linguistic data follows naturally from the logical relations inherent in the type logic.

Key Words: Type Logical Grammar, Type Logical Semantics, Generalised Quantifiers, Question Semantics

Received 16 January 2001.


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