03660nam 2200697Ia 450 991082537690332120240405105306.01-135-88544-3962-7283-87-80-415-86507-71-280-07600-30-203-50201-9(CKB)1000000000255767(EBL)182951(OCoLC)57196268(SSID)ssj0000312049(PQKBManifestationID)11260481(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000312049(PQKBWorkID)10331295(PQKB)11016534(MiAaPQ)EBC182951(Au-PeEL)EBL182951(CaPaEBR)ebr10165377(CaONFJC)MIL7600(EXLCZ)99100000000025576720030429d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTrue to form[electronic resource] rising and falling declaratives as questions in English /Christine Gunlogson1st ed.New York Routledge20031 online resource (116 p.)Outstanding dissertations in linguisticsDescription based upon print version of record.0-203-60547-0 0-415-96781-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-110) and index.Front Cover; True to Form; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Abstract; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Overview; 1.2 Assumptions; 1.3 Previous accounts; 2. The Distribution of Declarative Questions; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Declarative bias; 2.3 Lack of Speaker commitment; 2.4 Reconciling bias with lack of commitment; 3. Modeling Bias and Neutrality; 3.1 The discourse context; 3.2 Declarative meaning and locution meaning; 3.3 Interrogative meaning; 3.4 Locutionary bias and neutrality; 3.5 Entailment, uninformativeness, and vacuousness; 3.6 Operating on commitment sets4. Questioning4.1 Uninformativeness and questioning; 4.2 The Contextual Bias Condition on declarative questions; 4.3 pphlar questions defined; 4.4 The distribution of rising declarative questions revisited; 4.5 What reiterative questions are good for; 5. Conclusion; 5.1 Review of the analysis; 5.2 Intonational meaning, sentence type, and context; 5.3 Future developments; 5.4 In closing; References; IndexThis book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences:1) It's raining?2) It's raining.The difference between (1) and (2) is intonational: (1) has a final rise--indicated by the question mark--while (2) ends with a fall.Christine Gunlogson's central claim is that the meaning and use of both kinds of sentences must be understood in terms of the meaning of their defining formal elements, namely declarative sentence type and rising versus falling intonation. Gunlogson supports that claim through an investigation of the use of declarativesOutstanding dissertations in linguistics.English languageImperativeEnglish languageInterrogativeEnglish languageIntonationEnglish languageSentencesEnglish languageImperative.English languageInterrogative.English languageIntonation.English languageSentences.421/.6Gunlogson Christine1641497MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825376903321True to form3985666UNINA