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Concealed questions without meta-meta-questions
2021
Sentences like John knows the price that Fred knows are ambiguous between 'Reading A' and 'Reading B'. When such sentences have a further embedding, existing analyses predict 'Reading C' that involves meta-meta-questions. This paper presents an analysis in which the escalating ambiguity disappears when the referent of concealed question DP has a proper name. I show that Reading C is reduced to a version of Reading B without meta-meta-questions. The proposal is based on the idea that questions
doi:10.18148/sub/2021.v25i0.948
fatcat:xxenwvdg75bw5dsib3jboioa3i