SPAGAD Lecture Series: On the Grammar and Pragmatics of Exam Questions. Evidence from Marzahn German

Commentary           Grzegorz Gaszczyk (University of Groningen)

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Abstract

New data from interrogative marking in (Berlin) Marzahn German provide striking grammatical evidence for Levinson's conjecture that askings of information questions come with a social cost. The same data complicate the analysis of exam questions as pretense information questions.