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Author Onea Gáspár, Edgar, author.

Title Potential questions at the semantics-pragmatics interface / by Edgar Onea.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Series Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface ; volume 33
Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 33.
Note "This book is a substantially revised version of my manuscript entitled "Potential Questions in Discourse and Grammar", that was accepted by the University of Gottingen as a Habilitationsschrift in 2013."
Originally published in German as "Sprache und Schrift aus handlungstheoretischer Perspektive" by Edgar Onea Gáspár.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitèat Heidelberg, 2004/2005.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Contents; Acknowledgement; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1. What are Potential Questions?; 1.2. Potential Questions in Grammar; 1.2.1. The Phenomena under Discussion; 1.2.2. The Explanative Role of Potential Questions in Grammar; 1.2.3. Meanings in Grammar and Context; 1.3. Discourse Coherence and Potential Questions; 1.4. How to Read This Book; Chapter 2. Potential Questions in Grammar; 2.1. Specificational Constructions; 2.1.1. A Traditional Approach; 2.1.2. A Puzzle from German; 2.1.3. Specificational Constructions and Potential Questions.
2.2. Indefinite Pronouns and Determiners2.2.1. Indefinites and Specification; 2.2.2. Wide Scope Indefinites; 2.2.3. Epistemic Indefinites; 2.2.4. Further Evidence; 2.3. Appositives and Non-Restrictive Material; 2.3.1. The Nature of the Problem; 2.3.2. Parentheticals as Answers to Potential Questions; 2.4. Where Indefinites and Appositives Converge; Chapter 3. Questions and Interrogatives-The Basics; 3.1. Main Semantic Approaches to Questions; 3.2. Questions in Inquisitive Semantics; 3.3. Highlighting; 3.4. Answerhood; 3.5. Sub-Questions; 3.6. Questions and Interrogatives.
3.6.1. The Basic Case3.6.2. Which-Questions; 3.6.3. Highlighting and Exhaustification; 3.6.4. Disjunctive Questions; Chapter 4. Potential Questions as Parameters of Discourse Representation; 4.1. The Notion of Potential Questions; 4.1.1. Standard Potential Questions; 4.1.2. Potential Questions; 4.1.3. Primary Potential Questions; 4.1.4. Likely Potential Questions and the Ordering of Potential Questions; 4.1.5. Derived Potential Questions; 4.2. The Representation of Potential Questions; 4.3. Reconstructing PQs; 4.3.1. The Question-Answer Congruence.
4.3.2. Congruence in Alternative Semantics4.3.3. Accommodation; Chapter 5. Nominal Appositives and Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses; 5.1. The Projection Problem; 5.1.1. General Diagnostics; 5.1.2. Speaker Orientation; 5.1.3. High and Low Syntax; 5.2. The Proposal; 5.2.1. Clausal Nature of Supplement Expressions; 5.2.2. Syntactic Independence; 5.2.3. The Assertion Operator; 5.2.4. Constraints and Predictions; 5.3. Consequences; 5.4. Conclusion; Chapter 6. The Semantics of Specificational Constructions; 6.1. The Common Core of Specificational Particles.
6.1.1. Empirical Properties6.1.2. Specificational Constructions and Potential Questions; 6.2. Nämlich and und zwar; 6.2.1. Starting a Discourse; 6.2.2. Partial Answers; 6.2.3. Unarticulated Constituents; 6.2.4. Scalarity; 6.3. Explanation and Specification; 6.4. Discourse Referents and Potential Questions; Chapter 7. The Semantics of Indefinite Determiners; 7.1. The Story so Far; 7.1.1. Indefinites are not Quantifiers; 7.1.2. Only Apparent Wide Scope; 7.1.3. Indefinites are Quantifiers; 7.1.4. Indefinites are Nearly Quantifiers; 7.2. The Compositional System.
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Subject Speech acts (Linguistics)
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Writing -- Philosophy.
Writing -- Philosophy.
Writing.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Onea Gáspár, Edgar. Potential questions at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004204782 (DLC) 2015045166
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