Questions /
Veneeta Dayal.
- First edition.
- x, 321 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics ; 4 Oxford linguistics .
- Oxford surveys in semantics and pragmatics ; 4. Oxford linguistics. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-311) and index.
Introducing questions and answers -- A theory of questions and answers -- Exhaustive and non-exhaustive answers -- Single-pair, pair-list, and functional answers -- Embedded questions -- Weak islands and extraction -- Wh inside islands -- Focus and alternatives -- Non-canonical questions.