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1 online resource (x, 387 pages) |
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Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; volume 33 |
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Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 33.
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
In Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Edgar Onea proposes a novel component for question under discussion based discourse pragmatic theories thereby combining such theories with new ideas from inquisitive semantics. He shows how potential questions account for an entire range of grammatical phenomena. These phenomena include the semantics of indefinite determiners, the meaning contribution of nominal appositives, specificational constructions and non restrictive relative clauses. This book delivers a comprehensive and empirically rich investigation into the role of questions in natural language interpretation. Drawing on data from German, English, Hungarian and Russian, Edgar Onea's study significantly broadens our understanding of conventional sensitivity to questions through formally rigorous analyses of specificational particles, parentheticals and indefinites. The Potential Questions framework offers a new and exciting perspective on utterance meanings as not just addressing, but also raising questions, with important consequences for integrated analyses of discourse structure and discourse relations. This book is essential reading for anybody interested in the semantics-pragmatics interface. Judith Tonhauser, The Ohio State University |
| Notes |
"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." |
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Originally published in German as "Sprache und Schrift aus handlungstheoretischer Perspektive" by Edgar Onea Gáspár |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitèat Heidelberg, 2004/2005 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 09, 2019) |
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Writing -- Philosophy
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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Writing -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016002639 |
| ISBN |
9789004217935 |
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9004217932 |
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