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Remarks on Direct Questions and Direct Answers

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I would like to analyse an ordinary yes-no question (YNQ) as an epistemic request containing a disjunction of propositions. The latter constitute the set of possible direct answers to the YNQ (Hiz, 1978; Manor 1979).

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  1. University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium

    W. Van Langendonck

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  1. Université de l’Etat à Mons, Mons, Belgium

    F. Lowenthal  & J. Cordier  & 

  2. Rijksuniversiteit, Gent, Belgium

    F. Vandamme

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Van Langendonck, W. (1982). Remarks on Direct Questions and Direct Answers. In: Lowenthal, F., Vandamme, F., Cordier, J. (eds) Language and Language Acquisition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9099-2_31

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