Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface, Band 33) - Hardcover

Onea, Edgar

 
9789004204782: Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface, Band 33)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004204784 ISBN 13: 9789004204782
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Edgar Onea, Dr Phil (1980), University of Göttingen, is a Junior Professor for Theoretical Linguistics at the Courant Research Centre "Text Structures". He has published a wide range of articles on the semantics-pragmatics interface and formal pragmatics.

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Verlag
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9004204784
ISBN 13 
9789004204782
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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