Non-Canonical Questions

Cover
Title
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
PART I INTRODUCTION TO NON-CANONICAL QUESTIONS
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Canonical clause types and speech act syntax
		1.2 Non-canonical clause types and rethinking the role of syntax
		1.3 Canonicity and indirect speech acts
		1.4 Outline of the book
	2 Key concepts in the study of questions
		2.1 Questions in classical speech act theory and pragmatics
		2.2 Questions in semantic theory
		2.3 Questions in phonology
		2.4 Summary
	3 A typology of non-canonical questions
		3.1 Introducing bias, epistemicity, and the speaker\'s emotion
		3.2 Non-canonical questions and speaker bias
		3.3 Non-canonical questions and epistemic states
		3.4 Non-canonical questions and the speaker\'s emotion
		3.5 Summary
PART II THE SYNTAX OF NON-CANONICAL QUESTIONS
	4 Non-canonical word order
		4.1 Word order, prosody, and information structure
		4.2 wh-in-situ and echo questions
		4.3 Declarative questions
		4.4 Non-canonical fronting in questions
		4.5 Summary
	5 Non-canonical wh-elements
		5.1 why-like-what
		5.2 Degree readings of wh-elements in questions
		5.3 How come questions
		5.4 Summary
	6 Non-canonicity via modal particles
		6.1 Modal particles and speech act syntax
		6.2 The syntax of modal particles versus similar elements
		6.3 A cross-linguistic syntax of question particles
		6.4 Summary
PART III THE PRAGMATICS OF NON-CANONICAL QUESTIONS
	7 Non-canonical questions as first moves in a dialogue
		7.1 Request for information versus request for affirmation
		7.2 Some syntactic consequences
		7.3 Summary
	8 Non-canonical questions as second moves in a dialogue
		8.1 Answering and responding via questions
		8.2 The syntax of responses and pragmatic inferencing
		8.3 Summary
PART IV A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR NON-CANONICAL QUESTIONS
	9 Emotional intensities in non-canonical questions
		9.1 The expression of intensity in language
		9.2 The expression of intensity in questions
		9.3 Summary
	10 Non-canonical questions, expressivity, and the model of communication
		10.1 Two notions of expressivity
		10.2 Information structure and EB
		10.3 Information structure and EN
		10.4 Questions within a model of communication
		10.5 Questions and the syntax of indirect speech acts
		10.6 Conclusions
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Index