Questions in discourse. / Volume 1, : Semantics / 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 o...

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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).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Introduction / Klaus von Heusinger , Malte Zimmermann and Edgar Onea
  • Questions in Discourse: an Overview / Edgar Onea and Malte Zimmermann
  • Negation, Alternatives, and Negative Polar Questions in American English / Scott AnderBois
  • The *whether Puzzle / Floris Roelofsen , Michele Herbstritt and Maria Aloni
  • The English It-Cleft: No Need to Get Exhausted / Mary Byram Washburn , Elsi Kaiser and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
  • Disjunction and Alternatives in Egyptian Arabic / Lauren Winans
  • Superlative Quantification Particles / Henk Zeevat
  • Back Matter
  • Index.