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Questions and Answers
F. . Ed(S): Keifer
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Hardback. Editor(s): Keifer, F. Series: Linguistic Calculation. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1360.
In almost all principled accounts of questions questions are related to the corresponding answers. Zellig Harris (Harris 1978:1), for example, maintains 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 interroga tive." This amounts to the claim that a yes-no question such as Will John stay? is derived from I ask you whether John will stay and a wh question such as Who came is derived from something like I ... Read more
In almost all principled accounts of questions questions are related to the corresponding answers. Zellig Harris (Harris 1978:1), for example, maintains 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 interroga tive." This amounts to the claim that a yes-no question such as Will John stay? is derived from I ask you whether John will stay and a wh question such as Who came is derived from something like I ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
Linguistic Calculation
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789027715036
SKU
V9789027715036
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99-15
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