True to Form: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English

by Christine Gunlogson

This book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences:

1) It's raining?
2) It's raining.

The difference between (1) and (2) is intonational: (1) has a final rise--indicated by the question mark--while (2) ends with a fall.

Christine Gunlogson's central claim is that the meaning and use of both kinds of sentences must be understood in terms of the meaning of their defining formal elements,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415865077
• ISBN13: 9780415865074
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"