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

• Superior document: Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, Volume 33
• VerfasserIn: Onea Gáspár, Edgar,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; Volume 33.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (399 p.)
• Notes: "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.

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

Table of 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.