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Non-declarative sentences /
Non-declarative sentences such as interrogatives, imperatives and exclamations are analyzed together as a single class. The author gives a general characterization of all three types and shows that there are no other types of non-declarative sentences. Definitions are offered for the notions of decl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1983.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
IV:2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Non-declarative sentences such as interrogatives, imperatives and exclamations are analyzed together as a single class. The author gives a general characterization of all three types and shows that there are no other types of non-declarative sentences. Definitions are offered for the notions of declaration and presupposition. These definitions are applicable to all types of sentence, both declarative and non-declarative. A defining characteristic of non-declarative sentences is that only strongly intensional operators can apply to them to form complex sentences. It is shown that this property of non-declaratives implies that such sentences do not have declarations. A particular case of the relation between questions and conditionals is studied in more detail. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (123 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123). |
| ISBN: | 9789027280367 9027280363 902722529X 9789027225290 |
| ISSN: | 0166-6258 ; |