Confirmation or elaboration: What do yes/no declaratives want?

Recent analyses have argued that when requests for confirmation are implemented with declarative word order, they are closure-implicative due to the relatively knowing stance indexed with the declarative. This article demonstrates, however, that in some cases participants show an orientation to both...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Seuren, L, Huiskes, M
Format: Journal article
Published: Taylor and Francis 2017