35.1454, Books: Non-Canonical Questions: Trotzke (2024)

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Date: 25-Apr-2024
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: Non-Canonical Questions: Trotzke (2024)


Title: Non-Canonical Questions
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Oxford University Press
                http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/non-canonical-questi
ons-9780192872289?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_camp
aign=linguistics

Author: Andreas Trotzke
Hardback: ISBN: 9780192872289 Pages: 224 Price: U.S. $ 100.00
Abstract:

This book is the first to present a comprehensive theory of
non-canonical questions, those question types that do not (only)
request information from the addressee, but rather (additionally) tell
us something about the speaker's epistemic and/or emotional state,
such as can't-find-the-value questions, echo questions, rhetorical
questions, and surprise questions. While much recent research has
explored the formal semantics and the phonetics and phonology of both
canonical and non-canonical questions, the literature is still lacking
a comprehensive account from a syntax-pragmatics perspective that
brings together the multiple findings and strands of research from the
last twenty years.

The standard view in the syntax-pragmatics literature is that most
special interpretations of non-canonical questions involve syntactic
projections at or even above the level of illocutionary force. In this
work, Andreas Trotzke argues that this approach is a mistake, and
proposes a new alternative theory of non-canonical questions in which
both their special pragmatics and their syntax, as well as in many
cases their emotive component, can be derived solely from
propositional-level operators that do not affect the illocutionary
level of utterances and can be found across illocutionary forces. This
account dramatically simplifies the syntactic analysis of
non-canonical questions and is also able to capture some previously
unobserved data in the discourse behavior of those question types.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Pragmatics
                     Syntax

Written In: English (eng)



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