Utpal Lahiri is Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at MIT. Having obtained his doctorate from MIT in 1991, he was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Connecticut, Lecturer at MIT, and Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. A Brief Survey of Some Issues in the Semantics of Questions ; 3. Quantificational Variability I: Adverbial modification of embedded interrogatives ; 4. Embedded Interrogatives and Plurality ; 5. Quantificational Variability II: Adverbial modification of interrogative-embedding predicates ; 6. The Syntax of Embedded Interrogatives

I have never seen anyone walk into such a thicket of formalisms overgrown on so wide a terrain of phenomena and emerge with such a salutary result, with the dragon slain. Along the way is a pageant of smart refutations, elegant formulations, charity towards opponents and some new empirical discovery. Publication will be an important occasion. The book's simplifying vision of the semantics of interrogatives promises to finally make the subject fit for introductory graduate courses.