Intonation of disjunctive questions. van Gool, S. 2009. Term paper, University of Amsterdam
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Starting from the observation that for disjunctive questions the choice of an intonation pattern has both semantic and pragmatic implications, this paper has a three-fold aim: (i) to systematically describe and classify the effects of the different intonation patterns, (ii) to isolate the properties of the intonation patterns which cause these effects, (iii) to formalize the intonations as operators in a model for questions, in a framework based on the `inquisitive possibility semantics' developed by Groenendijk, Roelofsen and Ciardelli.

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