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Terms: Q
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Quality Implicature
A quality implicature is a conversational implicature based on the addressee's assumption as to whether or not the speaker is observing or flouting the …
Quantifier
A quantifier is a determiner that expresses a referent's definite or indefinite number or amount. A quantifier functions as a modifier of a noun, or …
Quantity Implicature
A quantity implicature is a conversational implicature based on an addressee's assumption as to whether the speaker is observing or flouting the …
Question
Here are two senses of question : A question is an illocutionary act that has a directive illocutionary point of attempting to get the addressee to supply …
Quotative Evidential
A quotative evidential is an evidential that signals that someone else is the source of the statement made.
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