Interpreting interrogatives as rhetorical questions

Lingua

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 201-229

  Han, Chung Hye ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boolean algebra and natural language semantics; Negative polarity item(s); Post LF derivation; Rhetorical question(s); Semantics of question(s); Semantics of wh word(s); Syntax pragmatics interface; Syntax semantics interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644288712     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3841(01)00044-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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