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Publication details [#4554]

Heim, Irene. 1979. Concealed questions. In Bäuerle, Rainer, Urs Egli and Arnim Von Stechow, eds. Semantics from different points of view. Springer. pp. 51–60.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | indirect speech act | model theoretic semantics | noun phrase | question

Annotation

A proposal for a treatment of the use of noun-phrases as so-called concealed questions, from a formal semantic point of view. A context-dependent approach is postulated to be the best one.