Questions, Queries, and Facts: A Semantics and Pragmatics for Interrogatives

by Jonathan Ginzburg

This work concerns itself with characterising the different types of contents that arise from uses of interrogative sentences, describing what meanings get associated with particular interrogative sentences and explaining how these get put together compositionally on the basis of the meaning of their constituents, with particular attention to the meaning of interrogative phrases. A view of questions is offered wherein these constitute the subclass...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881526704
• ISBN13: 9781881526704
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 300 Pages