A Structured Witness Approach to Pair-List Answers of wh-Questions with Plural Definites
摘要
[14] shows that wh-questions with plural definites semantically induce pair-list answers contra [17, 30] and proposes an analysis in which plural definites may perform distributive quantification. However, this analysis blurs a boundary between distributive quantifiers and plural definites, making a wrong prediction about the number sensitivity of the pair-list answers of wh-questions with the latter. I propose an alternative in which wh-questions with plural definites may induce pair-list answers without distributive quantification. I offer an implementation with a simple question semantics with Dynamic Plural Logic [1], and its extension with Dynamic Plural Inquisitive Semantics [6, 26].