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Publication details [#12167]

Hakulinen, Auli. 2001. Minimal and non-minimal answers to yes-no questions. Pragmatics 11 (1) : 1–15.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
answer | context | conversation | grammar1 | language typology | yes-no question
Language as a subject
Finnish
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

Contextual conditions for answers to yes-no questions are analyzed. Five types are distinguished and placed along a confirmation-negation continuum.