@article{Agha_Warstadt_2020, title={Non-resolving responses to polar questions: A revision to the QUD theory of relevance}, volume={24}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/850}, DOI={10.18148/sub/2020.v24i1.850}, abstractNote={<p>The influential Question Under Discussion (QUD) theory of discourse (Roberts, 2012) formal- izes Grice’s notion of relevance. In this paper, we identify a class of relevant discourse moves where Roberts’s account undergenerates, and propose a more inclusive definition of relevance. For example, if asked Should we cancel the picnic?, one can reply If it rains without fully re- solving the question. However, in Roberts’s theory, all relevant responses to polar questions are predicted to fully resolve the question because a relevant answer must eliminate at least one alternative in the QUD. We propose that a non-resolving response to a polar question is relevant if it eliminates a set of worlds that overlaps with only some alternatives in the QUD. The new account turns out to make good predictions in the domain of polar questions, and beyond.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Agha, Omar and Warstadt, Alex}, year={2020}, month={Sep.}, pages={17–34} }