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Interrogative Clauses in English and the Social Economics of Questions
Journal of Pragmatics, 2017Abstract Communicative interaction may be conceived of as a give and take of information that partners in conversation assign a value to and track carefully. The social value of information gives rise to a complicated microeconomic system in the sense of Levinson (2012) in which asking for information is associated with social costs that speakers ...
Peter Siemund
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Subordinate and Interrogative Clause Negation in Iquito
Linguistic Typology, 2018AbstractThis paper describes a specific non-standard negation strategy in Iquito, a moribund Zaparoan language spoken in northern Peruvian Amazonia. This strategy is used in finite subordinate clauses (namely adverbial dependent clauses and relative clauses), as well as information questions, and it utilizes two negative markers: a negative particle ...
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On the similarities and differences between indirect interrogative clauses and relative clauses
, 2021 This article deals with cases of overlap between indirect interrogative clauses and relative clauses in Latin. After overviewing the status quaestionis, attention is paid to factors involved in creating ambiguity, such as the semantic class of governing verbs, the type of indirect interrogative clauses and relative clauses that can overlap, the role of
Anna Pompei
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Non-Interrogative Subordinate Wh-Clauses
2023AbstractThis volume presents fourteen case studies of wh-clauses which are non-interrogative—lacking an interrogative meaning—and (mostly) subordinate. Moreover, the major part of the studies focuses on cases in which the meaning of the wh-word seems to deviate from the literal meaning of the wh-word (referring to persons, things, places, times, etc.).
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On the presuppositional strength of interrogative clauses
Natural Language Semantics, 2021A central question in the study of presuppositions is how a presupposition trigger contributes to the meaning of a complex expression containing it. Two competing answers are found in the literature on quantificational expressions. According to the first, a quantificational expression presupposes that every member of its domain satisfies the ...
Maayan Abenina-Adar, Yael Sharvit
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