Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1977 - 8/31/1977

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)


The Syntax and Semantics of Questions

FAIN: FT-13218-77

Michael R. Bennett
University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6133)

To investigate the syntax and semantics of questions in English from a logical point of view. PI believes that the syntax of questions essentially involves transformations, and that such syntactic processes cannot be formalized easily. The major results of the research, therefore, will be in the area of semantics.