Questions embedded under responsive predicates and definite descriptions both give rise to a variety of phenomena which can be grouped under the term plurality effects: quantificational variability, cumulativity, and homogeneity effects. This similarity has not gone unnoticed, and many proposals have taken inspiration in theories of definite plurals to account for these effects with embedded questions (Dayal in Locality in WH quantification: questions and relative clauses in Hindi, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1996; Lahiri in Questions and answers in embedded contexts, Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics 2, Oxford University Press, New York, 2002; a.o.). Recently these phenomena have received less attention, as the field has focused on the so-called intermediate exhaustive reading of embedded questions instead, after Spector (Exhaustive interpretations: what to say and what not to say, Presentation at LSA Workshop: ‘Context and Content’, 2005) called into question the traditional dichotomy between weak and strong exhaustive readings. As a result, the intermediate exhaustive reading has been accounted for at the expense of empirical coverage in other areas. In this paper, I propose a modular theory which derives the currently much discussed exhaustive readings without giving up the rich semantics necessary to account for plurality effects. My account of quantificational variability, cumulativity, and homogeneity effects builds on recent work on these phenomena in the nominal domain by adopting a categorial approach to embedded questions, while the strong and intermediate exhaustive readings are implemented using an independent strengthening mechanism suggested in Klinedinst and Rothschild (Semant Pragmat 4(2):1–23, 2011). The resulting theory not only recovers important results on plurality effects; it offers new, simple solutions for some puzzles presented in George (Question embedding and the semantics of answers, Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA, 2011; Thought J Philos 2(2):166–177, 2013) and Paillé and Schwarz (in: Stockwell (ed) Proceedings of WCCFL 36, vol 36, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, 2018), naturally derives readings that had been postulated in previous literature (Preuss in Issues in the semantics of questions with quantifiers, Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers University, 2001), makes correct predictions in many unexplored cases, and is compatible with recent results in psycholinguistics. In the last sections I justify my assumptions and show how possible limitations I inherit from the theories I build on can be accommodated under standard assumptions.

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基于穷举的嵌入式问题理论中的多元化效应

响应性谓词和确定性描述下嵌入的问题都引起了多种现象，这些现象可以归类为“多种效应”：量化变异性，累积性和同质性效应。这种相似性并没有被忽视，许多建议都在定数复数理论中得到启发，以解决嵌入问题的这些影响（WH量化中的Dayal in Locality：问题和相关从句，Hindi，Kluwer，Dordrecht，1996； Lahiri在Questions中）。和嵌入式环境中的答案，牛津大学理论语言学研究2，牛津大学出版社，纽约，2002年； ao）。最近，由于该领域专注于所谓的中间相反，在Spector（详尽的解释：该说什么，不该说，LSA研讨会上的演讲：“背景与内容”，2005年）之后，对嵌入的问题进行详尽的阅读引起了人们对传统的二分法的质疑。结果，已经以其他领域的经验覆盖为代价来解释中间穷举读数。在本文中，我提出了一种模块化理论，该理论推导了当前讨论最多的详尽阅读，而没有放弃考虑多种效应所必需的丰富语义。我对量化变异性，累积性和同质性影响的描述建立在对标称域中这些现象的最新研究的基础上，对嵌入的问题采用了分类方法，而强力和中度穷举读数是使用Klinedinst和Rothschild建议的独立增强机制来实现的（Semant Pragmat 4（2）：1-23，2011）。由此产生的理论不仅恢复了关于多重效应的重要结果；它为George（问题嵌入和答案的语义，博士学位论文，UCLA，2011； Thought J Philos 2（2）：166–177，2013）和Paillé和Schwarz（于：WCCFL 36的Stockwell（ed）会议录，第36卷，Cascadilla Proceedings Project，Somerville，2018），自然地获得了先前文献中所假设的读物（问题中关于量词的语义中的问题），博士论文，罗格斯大学（Rutgers University），2001年）在许多未开发的案例中做出正确的预测，并与最近在心理语言学领域的研究结果相吻合。在最后几节中，我对我的假设进行了论证，并显示了在标准假设下如何适应我从所建立的理论中继承的可能限制。