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Book SynopsisThe volume Questions in Discourse - Vol. 1 Semantics contains a comprehensive overview of the semantic analysis of questions and their role in structuring discourse, next to a series of in-depth contributions on individual aspects of question meanings. The expert contributions offer novel accounts of semantic phenomena such as negation and biased questions, question embedding, exhaustivity, disjunction in alternative questions, and superlative quantification particles in questions. Some accounts are modelled in the framework of inquisitive semantics, whereas others employ alternative semantics, and yet others point to the discourse-structuring potential of marked questions. All contributions are easily accessible against the background of the general introduction. Together, they give an excellent overview of current trends in question semantics.
Table of Contents1 Introduction Klaus von Heusinger, Malte Zimmermann and Edgar Onea 2 Questions in Discourse: an Overview Edgar Onea, Malte Zimmermann 3 Negation, Alternatives, and Negative Polar Questions in American English Scott AnderBois 4 The *whether Puzzle Floris Roelofsen, Michele Herbstritt and Maria Aloni 5 The English It-Cleft: No Need to Get Exhausted Mary Byram Washburn, Elsi Kaiser and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta 6 Disjunction and Alternatives in Egyptian Arabic Lauren Winans 7 Superlative Quantification Particles Henk Zeevat Index
