Varieties of Questions in English Conversation (Studies in Discourse and Grammar)

By: Elizabeth G. Weber

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This work considers relations which hold between morphosyntactic form and communicative function in discourse, by examining form-function correlations of non-interrogative questions in ordinary English conversation. So-called non-typical declarative and non-clausal questions are identified functionally. The role morphosyntax plays in the production and interpretation of these forms as doing questioning is then considered. Speakers are shown to use specific patterns of morphosyntactic marking to enable recipients to interpret non-interrogatives as functional questions. Explanations for morphosyntactic patterns found in the data are stated in terms of discourse use.

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