On the Semantics of Questions and the Pragmatics of Answers

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In Fred Landman & Frank Veltman, Varieties of Formal Semantics: Proceedings of the Fourth Amsterdam Colloquium. Foris. pp. 143-170 (1984)
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Presents a concise introduction to the partition analysis of questions and outlines a theory of answerhood based on that

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