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On the syntax/pragmatics interface: Expressing surprise and disapproval

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Published in 2019 at "Intercultural Pragmatics"

DOI: 10.1515/ip-2019-0017

Abstract: Abstract In this work we consider Italian special questions expressing surprise and question-exclamatives expressing surprise-disapproval. Both sentence types are introduced by the adversative particle ma. In order to better understand the role of prosody and… read more here.

Keywords: syntax pragmatics; syntax; expressing surprise; surprise disapproval ... See more keywords