Description

• Title:
  On the status of “attestation adverbials” in bipolar questions
• Creator:
  Bogusławski, Andrzej
• Description:
  The author addresses the properties of the special category of expressions established by Danielewiczowa (2012) and labeled by her “attestation adverbials”. A possible example of the category: He is definitely crazy. The question which the author tries to answer reads: how do expressions of that category fare in bipolar questions?His answer is as follows. On the one hand, primarily, such questions are deviant, on a par with questions embracing hypotheticals like probably, cf. * Has A probably murdered B? / * Is he definitely crazy?.On the other hand, secondarily, such questions are acceptable as metonymical utterances where a demand to receive an objective assertion is combined with a presupposition that someone had claimed not only that ‘such is the case [he is crazy]’, but also (by using the adverbial definitely), that her evaluation was unquestionable, cf. Is he, as Smith said, definitely crazy?.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 Andrzej Bogusławski;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2023.02.18
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Linguistica Copernicana; Tom 19 (2022); 33-40;
  2391-7768;
  2080-1068
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/LinCop/article/view/42641/34855
• Subject:
  attestation metapredicative adverbials;
  bipolar questions;
  deviance;
  metonymy
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/LinCop/article/view/42641
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text