Questions in discourse. / Volume 1, : Semantics / edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Malte Zimmermann, Edgar Onea.

• TeilnehmendeR: Heusinger, Klaus von,; Zimmermann, Malte, 1970-; Onea Gáspár, Edgar,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; Introduction /; Questions in Discourse: an Overview /; Negation, Alternatives, and Negative Polar Questions in American English /; The *whether Puzzle /; The English It-Cleft: No Need to Get Exhausted /; Disjunction and Alternatives in Egyptian Arabic /; Superlative Quantification Particles /; Back Matter --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004378308
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Malte Zimmermann, Edgar Onea.

The volume Questions in Discourse - Vol. 1 Semantics contains a comprehensive overview of the semantic analysis of questions and their role in structuring discourse, next to a series of in-depth contributions on individual aspects of question meanings. The expert contributions offer novel accounts of semantic phenomena such as negation and biased questions, question embedding, exhaustivity, disjunction in alternative questions, and superlative quantification particles in questions. Some accounts are modelled in the framework of inquisitive semantics, whereas others employ alternative semantics, and yet others point to the discourse-structuring potential of marked questions. All contributions are easily accessible against the background of the general introduction. Together, they give an excellent overview of current trends in question semantics.