Graduated June 1993, on National Merit Scholarship. Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Cognitive Science. We also observe that in both languages, indefinites can be formed by appending Q directly to a wh-word in a declarative sentence. Using this, we develop a compositional semantic account under which wh-words like who are represented as sets of individuals and Q is represented as an existential quantifier over choice function variables. This, in conjunction with the proposed syntax, allows us to derive the semantics both of questions and of indefinites containing wh-words.
More complex issues arise when considering questions with multiple wh-words and with quantifiers.
It is proposed that in multiple questions, Q originates by the lowest wh-word. Questions with quantifiers with functional readings and with pair-list readings are also discussed in detail. Experimental research activity . Language processing, Korean multiple-embeddings. Admissions Committee, Boston University Applied Linguistics Program.