The grammar of not-at-issue meaning (4/4)

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 16:00 to 18:00
Invité: 
Andreas Trotzke (Universität Konstanz, invité Labex)
Organisation: 
Barbara Hemforth (Labex EFL)
Lieu: 

ODG – Salle 126

Andreas Trotzke (Universität Konstanz, invité Labex)
The grammar of not-at-issue meaning (4/4)

The final lecture looks at expressive pseudo-questions such as How cool is that?! Based on corpus evidence, I will discuss implications of these constructions for our understanding of the relation between sentence types and illocutionary force. The lecture concludes by reevaluating the general approach of representing pragmatic notions in syntactic structure.