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When it comes to the semantics of questions there are basically two sorts of issues. The first concerns the meaning of interrogative form in general. This has to do with what it is that the interrogative type (of sentence or utterance) represents, signifies, or conveys. And so, the deep theoretical question that philosophers have long debated: What does a question, qua question, mean? The second sort of issue has to do with explaining precisely how each interrogative element functions — the individual components that together comprise the general form. What, more specifically, is the semantic role of verbal mood, of word-order, of intonation (or end punctuation), of stress? And how do these work in combination?
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Kortum, R.D. (2013). Conducive Questions. In: Varieties of Tone. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263544_22
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