"Myślisz, że jak to się robi?" O strukturze tematyczno-rematycznej pewnego typu zdań pytajnych

• Authors: Wójcicka Alicja

Title variants

EN

"How do you think it should be done?" About the thematic-rematic structure of a certain type of interrogative sentences

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to present an analysis of the thematic-rematic structure of Polish equivalents of interrogative sentences such as What do you think he had done?, namely of questions about some component of subordinate clause. In Polish, an interrogative pronoun has to be placed within the subordinate clause (it can be moved to the beginning of the sentence, but such an operation is connected with the contrastive intonation of the pronoun). The author claims that questions of the given type are to be interpret just as other wh-questions. She cites the theory of thematic-rematic structure of questions of A. Bogusławski and modifies this theory in order to account for interrogative sentences with counter-factive predicates, such as to lie.

Keywords

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semantics; thematic-rematic structure; question

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Wydawnictwo UMK
• Journal: Linguistica Copernicana
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 201-216

Contributors

author

Wójcicka Alicja

• Uniwersytet Warszawski, Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej