The Semantics of Rising Intonation in Interrogatives and Declaratives
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https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2005.v9i0.774Abstract
We analyze rising declaratives in English as modal expressions of epistemic uncertainty and argue that their question-like behavior is a secondary effect derived from maxims of rational conversation. In order to express the meaning with formal semantics, we combine Veltman’s update semantics with the test operator with a simple semantics for polar questions.Downloads
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2019-08-20
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Šafařová, M. (2019). The Semantics of Rising Intonation in Interrogatives and Declaratives. Proceedings of Sinn Und Bedeutung, 9, 355–369. https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2005.v9i0.774
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