Front Cover -- Questions in Dynamic Semantics -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions -- 1.1 General Background -- 1.1.1 The Notion of a Question -- 1.1.2 The Semantics of Questions -- 1.1.3 The Partition Theory -- 1.1.4 The Pragmatics of Questions -- 1.2 Current Issues -- 1.2.1 Exhaustification -- 1.2.2 Structured Meanings -- 1.2.3 Knowing Who and Which -- 1.2.4 Dynamic Semantics -- 1.3 This Volume -- 1.3.1 Update Semantics -- 1.3.2 Topic and Focus -- 1.3.3 Implicatures and Exhaustiveness -- 1.3.4 Intonation and Syntax -- 1.4 Remaining Issues -- Part I Update Semantics -- Chapter 2 The Logic of Interrogation -- 2.1 Logic and Conversation -- 2.2 The Game of Logic -- 2.3 The Tools of Interrogation -- 2.4 Partitioning Logical Space -- 2.5 Structuring the Context -- 2.6 Changing the Context -- 2.7 Consistency and Entailment -- 2.8 Licensing and Pertinence -- 2.9 Putting Licensing to the Test -- 2.10 Pertinent Answers -- 2.11 An Illustration. And Nothing Else -- 2.11.1 Resolving an Ambiguity with an Issue -- 2.11.2 Presupposing an Issue -- 2.11.3 How Accommodating Can One Get? -- 2.12 Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Axiomatizing Groenendijk's Logic of Interrogation -- 3.1 The Logic of Interrogation -- 3.2 The Relation with Beth's Definability Theorem -- 3.3 Axiomatization -- 3.4 Four Perspectives on LoI -- 3.4.1 Linguistic -- 3.4.2 Mathematical -- 3.4.3 Computational -- 3.4.4 Philosophical -- 3.5 Interlude: Optimal Answers and Uniform Interpolation -- 3.6 A Variation on LoI: Varying Domains -- 3.6.1 Four Perspectives on LoI Revisited -- 3.7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 4 Optimal Inquisitive Discourse -- Abstract -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Semantic Satisfaction of Questions and Assertions -- 4.3 Logic and Pragmatics of Questions and Answers.

4.4 Strategic Inquiry with Questions and Answers -- 4.5 Superquestions and 'Mention Some' -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Part II Topic and Focus -- Chapter 5 Only Updates. On the Dynamics of the Focus Particle Only -- Abstract -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Problem -- 5.3 Rooth 1992 -- 5.4 Update Logic for Questions and Answers -- 5.4.1 A Static Approach to the Semantics of Questions: Groenendijk and Stokhof 1989 -- 5.4.2 Information States and Updates -- 5.4.3 The Semantics of ULQA -- 5.4.4 The Relation of ULQA to First-order Logic -- 5.5 Restricted Quantification in ULQA -- 5.5.1 English rArr ULQA -- 5.5.2 Some Properties of ULQA -- 5.6 Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 6 The Dynamics of Topic and Focus -- 6.1 Background and Motivations -- 6.2 An update semantics of questions and focus -- 6.2.1 A closer look -- 6.3 Questions and answers -- 6.3.1 Constituent answers -- 6.3.2 Alternative questions -- 6.3.3 Embedding and coordination of questions -- 6.3.4 Which-questions -- 6.4 Pragmatic and semantic role of focus -- 6.4.1 Focus and topic sensitivity: only and always -- 6.4.2 Discourse congruence -- 6.4.3 Contrastive Topics -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 7 Nobody (Anything) Else -- Abstract -- Introduction -- 7.1 Predicate Logic with Anaphora -- 7.2 Topically Restricted Quantification -- 7.3 Quantified Constituent Answers -- 7.4 Something Else -- 7.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Part III Implicatures and Exhaustiveness -- Chapter 8 Exhaustivity, Questions and Plurals in Update Semantics -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Exhaustification -- 8.2.1 Update Semantics -- 8.2.2 Exhaustive Updates -- 8.3 Questions -- 8.3.1 Adapting Questions -- 8.3.2 Wh-elements -- 8.3.3 Answering -- 8.4 Topic and Focus -- 8.5 Plurals -- 8.5.1 Some constraints -- 8.6 Scalar Implicatures -- 8.7 Conclusion.

Chapter 9 Only: Meaning and Implicatures -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The focus alternative approach -- 9.3 A background alternative approach -- 9.4 The excluded versus the non-excluded -- 9.5 Context dependence -- 9.5.1 The problem of context dependence -- 9.5.2 Solving the problem by Relevance -- 9.6 The pragmatics of 'only' -- 9.6.1 The pragmatic contribution as a conversational implicature -- 9.6.2 The epistemic force of the implicature -- 9.7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 10 Scalar Implicatures: Exhaustivity and Gricean Reasoning -- Abstract -- 10.1 Imperfections of Standard Neo-Gricean Accounts -- 10.1.1 Chierchia's localist solution -- 10.1.2 Sauerland (2004) -- 10.1.3 Is exhaustification the solution? -- 10.1.4 When exactly do we exhaustify answers? -- 10.1.5 Goal of this paper: deriving exhaustivity -- 10.2 Formalizing the Gricean reasoning -- 10.3 Alternative sets and Exhaustification -- 10.3.1 An example -- 10.3.2 Background concepts -- 10.3.3 The case of positive propositions: predicting exhaustification -- 10.3.4 Non-positive propositions -- 10.4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- 10.5 Appendix -- 10.5.1 Language -- 10.5.2 Definitions -- 10.5.3 Theorems -- Part IV Intonation and Syntax -- Chapter 11 Nuclear Accent, Focus, and Bidirectional OT -- Abstract -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Constraints -- 11.2.1 A structural constraint -- 11.2.2 Destress -- 11.2.3 Focus set rule -- 11.2.4 The ranking -- 11.2.5 Some OT examples -- 11.3 Bi-directional optimality -- 11.3.1 Illustrations -- 11.4 Accent beyond focus -- 11.5 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Chapter 12 Counting (on) Usage Information: WH Questions at the Syntax-Semantics Interface -- Abstract -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Adding WH -- 12.2.1 Effects -- 12.3 Some cross-linguistic WH data -- 12.3.1 French interrogatives with a single WH-phrase -- 12.3.2 Korean.

12.3.3 German Multiple WH Questions -- 12.3.4 French Multiple WH Questions and WH* -- 12.3.5 English -- 12.3.6 Chinese and WH* -- 12.3.7 Summary -- 12.4 Embedding Q -- 12.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 13 Nuclear Rises in Update Semantics -- Abstract -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Empirical Observations -- 13.2.1 Summary of the facts -- 13.3 Existing Proposals -- 13.3.1 Pierrehumbert & Hirschberg (1990) -- 13.3.2 Gunlogson (2001) -- 13.3.3 Final Rise as a Modal Expression -- 13.4 Discussion -- 13.5 Summary and Future Work -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index.