Publications

Publication details [#1521]

Bock, J. Kathryn. 1977. The effect of a pragmatic presupposition on syntactic structure in question answering. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 16 (6) : 723–734.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

given vs. new information | pragmatic presupposition | question-answer sequence | word order

Annotation

Report of a test showing that answers to questions retain the syntactic structure and the order of given and new information from previously presented sentences if these sentences place given before new information; if, however, they place new information before given, an alternative syntactic form is used and the order of information is reversed in the answers.