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On the temporal interpretation of certain surprise questions
1Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca' Bembo, Dorsoduro 1075, 30123 Venice, Italy.
Abstract:
This article considers a special kind of surprise questions, i.e. those introduced by the adversative particle ma (but), and compares it with surprise exclamations. The main issue addressed here concerns the obligatory presence in the questions of the imperfect verbal form, versus the obligatory presence in exclamations of a non-imperfect indicative. It will be shown that the special semantics associated with these structures determines the presence of a certain verbal form. Some syntactic issues will be addressed in the final section, having to do with the representation in the syntax of properties connected to the context.
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