Titlebook: Questions and Answers; Ferenc Kiefer Book 1983 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1983 Syntax.grammar.language.semantics

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On Some Aspects of Presuppositions of Questions,sitions are closely connected with the position of the relevant element of the sentence either in the topic, or in the focus of the sentence. (1) is a presupposition of (2), because it is entailed both by (2) and by (3); (3) can be followed by (4) rather than by (5). The bearer of the intonation centre in all our examples is denoted by capitals.

tolerance

The Syntax and Semantics of English Mood,i) reflects the so-called T-condition of Tarski (1935, 1944). (iii) is inherent in the model-theoretic approach as persued, for example, by Montague (1974). And (iv) has been formulated in this particular way by Davidson (1967).

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Introduction,ns that ”…all interrogative sentences can be derived, by means of the independently established transformations of the language, from sentences which assert that someone is asking about a disjunction of statements which are the relevant possible answers to that interrogative.” This amounts to the cl

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,On the ”tell me truly” approach to the analysis of interrogatives,t paper—David and Stephanie R. Lewis give a very perceptive critical and constructive account of my theory of interrogatives as summarized in Åqvist (1972) and first set forth in Åqvist (1965). Most interestingly, they propose to replace the imperative-epistemic analysis of questions by an imperativ

municipality

The epistemic meaning of questions and statements,rsues. It is one thing to look for the pragmatic criteria distinguishing the various sorts of questions and statements, or selecting certain statements as adequate answers to certain questions. It is another thing to look for the most basic semantic elements distinguishing questions from statements,

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What answers can be given?, with an “if”. The aspect to be dealt with in this study is actually one which, as we should properly expect, is most obvious with respect to the analysis of questions and answers: It is the question of when the answers to questions are acceptable, sensible or proper at least in the sense that the q

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