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on the interaction between syntactic structure and pragmatic function

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provides evidence for the syntactic representation of pragmatic categories like speech act, speaker evaluation, speaker/hearer evidence

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my paper discusses the similarities and differences between standard information questions, special questions and exclamations and the role of modal particles in these speech acts

Professor Roland Hinterhölzl
Universita Ca' Foscari

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This page is a summary of: Discourse-oriented Syntax, December 2015, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/la.226.
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