http://t2.stooorage.com/thumbs/851/3217184_true-2bto-2bform.jpg Title: TRUE TO FORM: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English Author(s): Christine Gunlogson Publisher: Routledge Date: 2003 Pages: 117 Size: 769 kB Format: PDF Quality: High Language: American English Content: This book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences: 1) It's raining? 2) It's raining. The difference between (1) and (2) is intonational: (1) has a final rise--indicated by the question mark--while (2) ends with a fall. Christine Gunlogson's central claim is that the meaning and use of both kinds of sentences must be understood in terms of the meaning of their defining formal elements, namely declarative sentence type and rising versus falling intonation. Gunlogson supports that claim through an investigation of the use of declaratives as questions. On one hand, Gunlogson demonstrates that rising and falling declaratives share an aspect of conventional meaning ...