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Publication details [#2751]
Doherty, Monika. 1983. The epistemic meaning of questions and statements. In Kiefer, Ferenc, ed. Questions and answers. Reidel. pp. 15–44. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
D. claims that the syntactic and phonological means which are in themselves sufficient to characterize a sentence as a question or as a statement belong to a set of syntactic, lexical and phonological means which serve to express attitudes, in particular those concerning the existence of the state of affairs referred to by the sentence.