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Fauconnier, Gilles. 1980. Pragmatic entailment and questions. In Searle, John R., Ferenc Kiefer and Manfred Bierwisch, eds. Speech act theory and pragmatics. Reidel. pp. 57–69.
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Article in book
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English
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F. argues against the idea that questions such as 'Did you 'lift a finger' when I needed it?' contain negative elements at some underlying structural level (which might be suggested by the linguistic distribution of polarity items); previously established characteristics of questions, scales and implicature are said to yield the observed surface distributions.