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OverviewIn 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 Full Product DetailsAuthor: Edgar OneaPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 33 Weight: 0.749kg ISBN: 9789004204782ISBN 10: 9004204784 Pages: 388 Publication Date: 11 February 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationEdgar Onea, Dr Phil (1980), University of Goettingen, 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |