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Publication details [#5349]
Karttunen, Lauri and Stanley Peters. 1976. What indirect questions conventionally implicate. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 12 : 351–368.
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Article in journal
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English
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Annotation
K. and P. express the belief that the presuppositions of questions and those of declarative sentences are different phenomena. They propose to use the notion 'conventional implicature' in a Montague-based model-theoretic description of indirect questions (such as 'whether or not it is raining' in 'John knows whether or not it is raining'). They suggest that this treatment can be extended to direct questions.