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Varieties of Questions in English Conversation
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Varieties of Questions in English ConversationThis book examines relations which hold between morphosyntactic form and communicative function in discourse by examining form-function correlations of noninterrogative questions in ordinary English conversation. So-called nontypical declarative and nonclausal 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 noninterrogatives as functional questions. Explanations for morphosyntactic patterns found in the data are stated in terms of discourse use.
 
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Tags: morphosyntactic, questions, discourse, English, patterns
Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of Depictives
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Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of Depictives
This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication - a hot topic in syntax and semantics research - from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties.
 
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Tags: their, morphosyntactic, contributions, surveys, critical