Titlebook: Questions and Answers; Ferenc Kiefer Book 1983 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1983 Syntax.grammar.language.semantics

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New Foundations for a Theory of Questions and Answers, used the notation of customary epistemic logic but leftits semantics unanalysed.. The reason for this relative neglect was thatI took the semantics in question to be familiar enough to my readers.Meanwhile, however, I have come to realize that this assumption is notfully satisfied for two different

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On Question,lightly embarrassed to add yet another proposal to theexisting ones. Nevertheless it seems to me, that there are certainphenomena which a theory of questions should be able to handle, butwhich are not dealt with jointly by the existing theories. Thesephenomena can be summed up under the following he

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Questions of believing, and mainly, a specific aspect of the semantics of beliefquestions will be analyzed, of questions like (a), the propositionalcomponent of which is embedded in a construction with a verbexpressing the attitude of belief.

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Relevance of Topic and Focus for Automatic Question Answering,lusions (see Sgall, Hajicova and Benesova, 1973; Sgalland Hajicova, 1977), which include several rather strong hypotheses.Though, of course, they do not cover the whole domain of word order,intonation and their functions, they appear to present a useful basis fora detailed description of the main fe

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Book 1983ns that" ... all interrogative sentences can be derived, by means of the independently established transformations of the language, from sentences which assert that someone is asking about a disjunction of statements which are the relevant possible answers to that interroga- tive." This amounts to t

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The epistemic meaning of questions and statements,icate when questions and statements are seen as part of a system of linguistic means, whose paradigmatic and syntagmatic interdependences become apparent in the way they interact with each other, i.e. in their respective contextual properties.

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