Potential questions at the semantics-pragmatics interface / by Edgar Onea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Onea Gáspár, Edgar.

Series:

Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface 33.

Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Writing--Philosophy.

Writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Front Matter

Introduction

Potential Questions in Grammar

Questions and Interrogatives—The Basics

Potential Questions as Parameters of Discourse Representation

Nominal Appositives and Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses

The Semantics of Specificational Constructions

The Semantics of Indefinite Determiners

Potential Questions in Discourse

Outlook

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

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"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."

Originally published in German as "Sprache und Schrift aus handlungstheoretischer Perspektive" by Edgar Onea Gáspár.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitèat Heidelberg, 2004/2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004217935

9004217932

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004217935 DOI