On the Rise and Fall of Declaratives

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Title:	On the Rise and Fall of Declaratives
Authors:	ID Trinh, Tue (Author) ID Crnič, Luka (Author)
Files:	https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/405
Language:	English
Work type:	Unknown
Typology:	1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
Organization:	UNG - University of Nova Gorica
Abstract:	This paper argues for a new way of thinking about semantic and pragmatic effects of particular sentence intonation patterns. The main focus of the paper is on the so-called rising declaratives, i.e. sentences that have the surface structure of a declarative sentence but are pronounced with a rising pitch contour. Rising declaratives differ from both declaratives with a falling pitch contour and questions in their pragmatic effect. Our goal is to account for this difference. We propose that rising intonation contour is syntactically realized. Its semantic import is to determine the resolution of a variable in the speech act projection, i.e. rising intonation operates on speech acts. The pragmatic effects associated with rising declaratives are shown to follow from this minimal assumption and the independently motivated tenets of speech act theory.
Keywords:	rising declaratives, biased questions
Year of publishing:	2011
Number of pages:	Str. 629-644
PID:	20.500.12556/RUNG-9680
COBISS.SI-ID:	221578755
UDC:	81
NUK URN:	URN:SI:UNG:REP:G99JOMHD
Publication date in RUNG:	09.01.2025
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Title:	Sinn und Bedeutung 15 : proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Semantik
Editors:	Ingo Reich
Place of publishing:	Saarbrücken
Publisher:	Universaar
ISBN:	978-3-86223-039-6
COBISS.SI-ID:	221574403
Collection title:	Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Collection numbering:	ǂvol. ǂ15
Collection ISSN:	2629-6055

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