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Paperback True to Form: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English Book
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ISBN: 0415865077

ISBN13: 9780415865074

True to Form: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English

(Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series)

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This book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences:

1) It's raining?
2) It's raining.

The difference between (1) and (2) is intonational: (1) has a final rise--indicated by the question mark--while (2) ends with a fall.

Christine Gunlogson's central claim is that the meaning and use of both kinds of sentences must be understood in terms of the meaning of their defining formal elements,...

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