Index
additive particles
51, 78–79, 93–95
alternative questions
24, 271–272, 274
alternative semantics
11, 14, 39–40, 47, 97, 256–261, 267–271
alternatives
6, 10–18, 21–24, 28, 34–36, 39–56, 64–85, 88–90, 93, 97–98, 151–152, 212–213, 251–273
American Sign Language
3, 96, 127–131
see also ASL
anaphoric deaccenting
9, 29–30, 38–39
ASL
96, 98–108, 110–112, 116, 120–124, 126–131
assertion accommodation
221
association with focus
43, 68, 78, 94, 130, 273
compact discourse trees
177
contrast
6–10, 18–34, 37, 43, 55–60, 65, 70, 72, 80, 95, 99, 110, 120, 126, 131, 143, 153–156, 171–172, 185, 196, 203, 225, 231, 248, 250, 270
contrastive focus
8, 20–23, 29–32, 42–43, 98–100
conversational implicatures
161
coordination
173, 198–199, 204, 218, 227–232, 236–239, 242, 244, 246, 271–272
counterfactuals
252–254, 260–261, 271–274
d-trees
91, 161, 166–167, 190
deaccenting
6–10, 12, 17, 22, 26–33, 38–42
definite
45, 58–60, 91
dependent questions
169, 177, 210, 215–218
DGS
3, 96–99, 102–103, 106, 112–128, 130
discourse navigation
201
discourse representation
4, 164–165, 191, 194, 198–210, 218–223, 242
discourse structure
93, 95, 110, 164–167, 176, 183–186, 191–197, 219, 246–249
disjunction
28, 136–137, 211, 213, 251–274
disjunction in alternative semantics
256, 271
double focus
33–34, 37
doubling
3, 101, 104–115, 119–126
embedding
56, 64, 97, 107, 111–115, 124, 173
emphasis
98, 101, 115, 123–126, 251
erotetic structure
196–199, 208–210, 217, 220, 226–242, 246–247
focus
5–11, 13–63, 68, 70–83, 90–103, 108–112, 124–137, 148, 151, 155–166, 173–183, 190–192, 197, 218, 221, 249–250, 257, 271, 273
focus and questions under discussion
46
focus-sensitive particles
34, 56, 92, 127
focus-sensitivity and questions under discussion
51
free choice
252–254, 270–274
givenness
5–33, 35–44, 91, 127, 174–179, 185, 190, 192
gradable adjectives
135, 146–149
implicature
60, 63, 83–87, 134–137, 142, 145–162, 249, 272
indirect answers
132–145, 147–157, 159, 161–163
information structure
45, 91–95, 98, 125–131, 162–167, 170–186, 191–193, 198, 210, 223, 230–234, 247–250
inquisitive semantics
4, 212, 251, 253, 261–271
interrogative
107, 111, 114, 130–131, 153, 248, 268
narration
168–171, 185, 195–204, 207, 226–235, 244
Ngamo (west chadic)
45–95
non-at-issue
49, 180–184
polar question
105–106, 110, 114–115, 132–154, 157, 211, 258, 264–265
potential questions
110, 129, 162, 191, 210–228, 234, 236, 246, 249
prominence
5, 43, 130
prominent
158, 160, 208, 238, 253, 258
prosodic domain splitting
35
prosodic reversal
7–8, 12–18, 22, 36, 41
prosody
6, 12–13, 18, 33, 39–44, 128–137, 147–155, 190, 192, 273
QUD constraints
177
QUD s
39, 46, 48, 79–80, 164–176, 179, 185–186, 191
see also question under discussion
question
14, 16–37, 41, 47–69, 74–77, 91, 96–99, 101–129, 135–160, 165–184, 189, 193, 196–199, 208–250, 257–259, 264–272
question trees
199, 209, 220, 226, 229–234, 242–247
question under discussion
7, 47, 97, 153–154, 182, 197, 208, 246–247
question-answer pair
96, 102–114, 118, 122–125
result
10, 17, 26, 35–41, 76, 93, 108, 110, 124, 126, 146–147, 172, 191, 194–249, 251, 253, 268
rhetorical relations
93, 129, 164, 191–199, 201–239, 241–249
rise-fall-rise contour
3, 132, 134, 144–157, 163
salience
175, 214
salient
9–11, 17–28, 30–38, 43–56, 72–78, 80–85, 90, 174–177, 184, 186, 237
scalar additives
56
scalar implicature
134–137, 142–148, 155–157, 161–162
scalar particles
67, 74, 94–95
SDRT
165–172, 177, 185, 190, 194–209, 221, 226–241, 246–248
sign language
3, 96–99, 103–104, 116, 119, 127–131
sub-questions
153–154, 198, 210, 215–218, 223–225, 231
subordination
95, 198–199, 218, 228, 232, 234, 237, 244
unalternative semantics
11–16, 18, 22, 30, 39, 43, 98
until
45, 57, 81, 85–92, 148, 219
wh-cleft
97, 110, 126
wh-question
74, 98, 102–103, 113–118, 122–123, 211
wh-word
106, 110, 112–117, 120–123, 180, 227