Questions
To the philosopher, the logician, and the linguist, questions have a special fascination. The two main views of language, that it describes the world, and that it expresses thought, are not directly applicable to questions. Ques tions are not assertions. A question may be apt, sharp, to the point,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1978, 1978
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1978 |
| Series: | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The Interrogative in a Syntactic Framework
- Generative-Transformational Studies in English Interrogatives
- Yes—No Questions Are Not Alternative Questions
- Asking More Than One Thing at a Time
- Q-Morpheme Hypothesis
- Syntax and Semantics of Questions
- Difficult Questions
- Questions and Categories
- Answers to Questions
- Questions as Epistemic Requests
- A Prolegomenon to an Interrogative Theory of Scientific Inquiry