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Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Colin Brown

Colin Brown: Multiple wh-clefts and their answers Content questions with multiple wh-expressions, such as ‘whosaw what?’ admit two different types of answer: single-pair answers andpair-list answers. This does not hold for cleft questions with multiple wh-expressions,such as ‘who is it that saw what?’ which allow only a single-pair answer. Inthis talk I pose the following questions: (i)...