On Truckenbrodt on Interrogatives CHRISTIAN PLUNZE and THOMAS EDE ZIMMERMANN Introduction In his contribution to the present volume, Hubert Truckenbrodt presents a novel and elegant account of the connection between the syntactic structure of an utterance and the illocutionary force signalled by it. In this short note we cannot do justice to the entire approach with its intri- cate architecture, which is why we decided to confine ourselves to a few scattered remarks relating to the analysis of interrogatives – partly fore- shadowed in Truckenbrodt’s (2004) earlier work, to which we will occa- sionally refer. A striking new element in Truckenbrodt’s meaning ascriptions to various sentence types is his reference to the common ground between speaker (S) and addressee (A). In particular, Truckenbrodt argues that the meaning of an interrogative in unembedded use encodes S’s wish that it will be common knowledge between S and A whether p 1 . In the first part of this paper we investigate whether this intersubjective analysis (as we will from now say) is, as Truckenbrodt claims, more appropriate than the subjective analyses of interrogatives endorsed by Hintikka (1974, 1975) and others. In the second part we turn to Truckenbrodt’s analysis of the di¤erence between VL and VC-interrogatives. Theoretical Linguistics 32–3 (2006), 321–333 0301–4428/06/0032–0321 DOI 10.1515/TL.2006.020 6 Walter de Gruyter 1 .... or who P, which P etc. in the case of wh-interrogatives.