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The central parts of this paper are Section 3 which contains a semantics for questions and the formula (4.2) which provides a uniform syntactic, description of a lot of different kinds of English interrogatives.
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Hiż, H. (1978). Difficult Questions. In: Hiż, H. (eds) Questions. Synthese Language Library, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9509-3_7
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