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Peer reviewedHudson, Richard A. – Language, 1975
Polar interrogative sentences differ from declarative sentences in terms of illocutionary forces and the linguistic analysis of their meaning. It is possible to isolate small numbers of syntactic and semantic categories and an unlimited number of illocutionary forces resulting from their interaction with the total situation. (CK)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Pragmatics, Semantics
Peer reviewedPrince, Ellen F. – Language, 1978
Demonstrates through an examination of naturally occurring discourse that Wh-Clefts and It-Clefts are not interchangeable; they have highly specialized distributions and functions. (EJS)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory
