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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Short answers as tests: A post-suppositional view on wh-questions and answers
%A Zhang, Linmin
%Y Richard, Valentin D.
%Y Roelofsen, Floris
%S Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary
%D 2023
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Nancy, France
%F zhang-2023-short
%X This paper explores a post-suppositional view on wh-questions and their answers with dynamic semantics. Inspired by Brasoveanu (2013); Charlow (2017); Bumford (2017), I propose a unified treatment of items like modified numerals, focus items, and wh-items: they (i) introduce a discourse referent (dref) in a non-deterministic way and (ii) impose definiteness tests (and additional tests) in a delayed, post-suppositional manner at the sentential / discourse level. Thus, with a question like “who smiled”, the (maximally informative) dref “the one(s) who smiled” is derived. A short answer like “Mary and Max” is considered another post-supposition-like, delayed test, checking whether the dref “the one(s) who smiled” is identical to (or includes) the sum “Mary⊕Max”. I analyze various question-related phenomena to see how far this proposal can go.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.inqbnb-1.1
%P 1-10

Markdown (Informal)

[Short answers as tests: A post-suppositional view on wh-questions and answers](https://aclanthology.org/2023.inqbnb-1.1) (Zhang, InqBnB-WS 2023)

• Short answers as tests: A post-suppositional view on wh-questions and answers (Zhang, InqBnB-WS 2023)

ACL

• Linmin Zhang. 2023. Short answers as tests: A post-suppositional view on wh-questions and answers. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary, pages 1–10, Nancy, France. Association for Computational Linguistics.