True to form [[electronic resource] ] : rising and falling declaratives as questions in English / / Christine Gunlogson
| True to form [[electronic resource] ] : rising and falling declaratives as questions in English / / Christine Gunlogson |
| Autore | Gunlogson Christine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (116 p.) |
| Disciplina | 421/.6 |
| Collana | Outstanding dissertations in linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Imperative
English language - Interrogative English language - Intonation English language - Sentences |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
962-7283-87-8
0-415-86507-7 1-280-07600-3 0-203-50201-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 sets
4. 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; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450837003321 |
Gunlogson Christine
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| New York, : Routledge, 2003 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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True to form [[electronic resource] ] : rising and falling declaratives as questions in English / / Christine Gunlogson
| True to form [[electronic resource] ] : rising and falling declaratives as questions in English / / Christine Gunlogson |
| Autore | Gunlogson Christine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (116 p.) |
| Disciplina | 421/.6 |
| Collana | Outstanding dissertations in linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Imperative
English language - Interrogative English language - Intonation English language - Sentences |
| ISBN |
1-135-88544-3
962-7283-87-8 0-415-86507-7 1-280-07600-3 0-203-50201-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 sets
4. 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; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784099903321 |
Gunlogson Christine
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| New York, : Routledge, 2003 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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