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About 'What About': Topicality at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
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What about questions have played a number of supporting roles in the literature on topicality. Gundel (1974, 1988) proposes a what about diagnostic for topichood, where alignment with a what about question indicates which entity is the "pragmatic topic" of a subsequent utterance. What abouts have also been taken to cue contrastive topics (Jackendoff 1972; Buring 2003; Beaver et al. 2017), and Eber…
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