Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

✍ Scribed by Edgar Onea

Publisher: BRILL
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 399
Series: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface Ser.
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Edgar Onea proposes a novel theory of the role of the question under discussion in the interpretation of indefinites, appositives and further grammatical constructions.

✦ Subjects

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