Constituent Questions

I. Introduction.- 1. Theoretical and Methodological Issues.- 2. Unbounded Dependencies.- 3. Questions in Swedish.- 3.1. Extractions Out of Indirect Questions.- 3.2. Bound Anaphors in Preposed Constituents.- 4. The Semantics of Questions.- 5. Extensions of the Present Study.- Notes.- II. Recent Approaches to Unbounded Dependencies.- 0. Introduction.- 1. Short Overview of Relevant Data from Swedish.- 2. Arguments for Transformations.- 3. Generalized Phrase-Structure Grammars.- 3.1. Syntactic Rules.- 3.2. Semantic Rules.- 3.2.1. Designated Variables.- 3.2.2. Lambda Conversion.- 3.3. Evaluating the GPSG Framework.- 4. Cooper's Proposal.- 4.1. Free Quantification and Controlled Quantification.- 4.2. Interpretation Through Substitution.- 5. Phrase Linking Grammars.- 5.1. An Outline of PLG.- 5.2. Linked Trees.- 5.3. Semantics.- 6. Unbounded Dependencies in the Government-Binding Framework.- 7. Choosing a Framework.- Notes.- III. A Frame Work for Swedish.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Format of Rules.- 2.1. Syntax.- 2.2. Semantics.- 3. Quantification.- 3.1. Free Quantification.- 3.2. Controlled Quantification.- 4. Questions.- 4.1. Questions Out of Questions.- 4.2. Multiple Questions.- 4.2.1. Mixed yes/no and Constituent Questions.- 4.2.2. Do We Need a Syntactic Category Q?.- 4.2.3. Linked Trees and Token Indexing.- 4.3. Subject Questions.- 4.4. Infinitival Questions.- 5. Pronouns.- 5.1. Free and Bound Pronouns.- 5.1.1. Resumptive Pronouns.- 5.1.2. Epithets.- 5.2. Reflexives.- 5.3. Restrictions on Binding of Pronouns.- 6. Gaps.- 6.1. Alternation Between Gaps and Pronouns.- 6.2. Pronoun-Gap Alternation as a Disambiguating Device.- 6.3. Parasitic Gaps.- 7. Constraining the Framework.- 7.1. How Many Extractions?.- 7.2. Structural Constraints.- 8. Summary.- Notes.- IV. The Interprentaion of Questions.- 1. Some Previous Approaches to Questions.- 1.1. Karttunen's Treatment of Constituent Questions.- 1.2. Some Problems for Karttunen's Approach.- 2. Quantifying Into Questions.- 2.1. Karttunen and Peters' Proposal.- 2.2. Belnap's Proposal.- 3. Some Arguments Against Quantifying Into Questions.- 3.1. Relational Questions Without Wide Scope Antecedents.- 3.2. Negative Antecedents.- 3.3. Questions Into Opaque Contexts.- 3.4. Summary.- 4. A Relational Approach to Interrogative Quantifiers.- 4.1. Similarities Between Pronouns and Interrogatives.- 4.2. The W Function.- 4.3. Questions With Bound Anaphors.- 4.3.1. Bound Personal Pronouns.- 4.3.2. Reflexive Pronouns.- 5. Interaction Between Interrogative Quantifiers and Other Quantifiers.- 5.1. Quantifiers and Pronoun Interpretation.- 5.2. Constituent Questions With Quantifiers.- 5.3. Excursus on Wide Scope Interpretation of Embedded NPs.- 6. The Internal Structure of Interrogative Constituents.- 6.1. Possessives.- 6.1.1. vems (whose).- 6.2. PP Complements.- 6.3. Partitive Questions.- 6.4. More on Control of Reflexives.- 7. Multiple WH Questions.- 7.1. Simple 'unmoved' WH Phrases.- 7.2. Embedded WH Phrases.- 7.3. Embedded WH Phrases in Comp.- 8. Questions Involving Other Categories.- 8.1. Pied-Piping.- 8.2. Adverbial, Adjectival, and Predicate Nominal Questions.- 8.3. Questions With Quantifier Type Answers.- 9. An Alternative Approach.- 9.1. Analyzing which as a Quantifier.- 9.2. Temporally Ambiguous Questions.- 9.3. Arguments Against Splitting up the Interpretation of Interrogative Quantifiers.- 10. Conclusion.- Notes.- V. A Comparison with EST-GB.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Semantic Interpretation in Transformational Grammar.- 3. Characterizing wh-Movement.- 4. wh-Interpretation and Reconstruction at LF.- 5. Bound Anaphors in Moved Constituents.- 5.1. Anaphora Interpretation in EST.- 5.2. The Binding Theory in the Government-Binding Framework.- 5.3. wh-Interpretation Reconsidered.- 6. Higginbotham and May's Theory of Questions.- Notes.- VI. Restricting the Interpretation of Pronouns.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Disjoint Reference and Non-Coreference.- 2.1. A Pragmatic Account for Non-Coreference.- 2.2. Bound Anaphora and Parasitic Gaps.- 3. Cross-over.- 3.1. Background.- 3.2. Higginbotham's Approach.- 3.3. Accounting for Cross-over Without Indexing of Syntactic Structures.- 3.4. Weak Cross-over.- 3.5. Cross-over and the Binding Theory in GB.- Notes.- VII. Theorotical Postcript.- 1. Linked Trees.- 2. Storage.- 3. Relational Readings.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.