Non-declarative Sentences.

By: Zuber, RichardMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Pragmatics & BeyondPublisher: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1983Copyright date: ©1983Description: 1 online resource (133 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789027280367Subject(s): English language -- Imperative | English language -- Interjections | English language -- Interrogative | English language -- Semantics | English language -- SentencesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Non-declarative SentencesDDC classification: 425 LOC classification: PE1385 -- .Z8 1983ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
NON-DECLARATIVE SENTENCES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 0. INTRODUCTION -- 1. INTENSIONAL RELATIONS -- 2. INDIRECT NON-DECLARATIVES -- 3. UNDERSTANDING QUESTIONS -- 4. NON-DECLARATIVES -- 5. QUESTIONS AND CONDITIONALS -- 6.TENTATIVE CONCLUSIONS -- FOOTNOTES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.
Summary: Non-declarative sentences such as interrogatives, imperatives and exclamations are analyzed together as a single class. The author gives a general characterization of all three types and shows that there are no other types of non-declarative sentences. Definitions are offered for the notions of declaration and presupposition. These definitions are applicable to all types of sentence, both declarative and non-declarative. A defining characteristic of non-declarative sentences is that only strongly intensional operators can apply to them to form complex sentences. It is shown that this property of non-declaratives implies that such sentences do not have declarations. A particular case of the relation between questions and conditionals is studied in more detail.
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NON-DECLARATIVE SENTENCES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 0. INTRODUCTION -- 1. INTENSIONAL RELATIONS -- 2. INDIRECT NON-DECLARATIVES -- 3. UNDERSTANDING QUESTIONS -- 4. NON-DECLARATIVES -- 5. QUESTIONS AND CONDITIONALS -- 6.TENTATIVE CONCLUSIONS -- FOOTNOTES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

Non-declarative sentences such as interrogatives, imperatives and exclamations are analyzed together as a single class. The author gives a general characterization of all three types and shows that there are no other types of non-declarative sentences. Definitions are offered for the notions of declaration and presupposition. These definitions are applicable to all types of sentence, both declarative and non-declarative. A defining characteristic of non-declarative sentences is that only strongly intensional operators can apply to them to form complex sentences. It is shown that this property of non-declaratives implies that such sentences do not have declarations. A particular case of the relation between questions and conditionals is studied in more detail.

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