Andreas Trotzke is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. His areas of expertise include syntax, pragmatics, and language education. He has been awarded several Invited Professorships and Visiting Scholarships, among them a 1-year scholarship at Stanford University (2016-2017), the prestigious Chair 2017 Empirical Foundations of Linguistics at Université Sorbonne Paris Cité/CNRS, and an IDEX Professorship (1re classe) at the Université de Bordeaux. He is the co-editor, with Xavier Villalba, of Expressive Meanings Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks (OUP, 2021).

• Part I. Introduction to non-canonical questions 1: Introduction 2: Key concepts in the study of questions 3: A typology of non-canonical questions Part II. The syntax of non-canonical questions 4: Non-canonical word order 5: Non-canonical wh-elements 6: Non-canonicity via modal particles Part III. The pragmatics of non-canonical questions 7: Non-canonical questions as first moves in a dialogue 8: Non-canonical questions as second moves in a dialogue Part IV. A new framework for non-canonical questions 9: Emotional intensities in non-canonical questions 10: Non-canonical questions, expressivity, and the model of communication References Index

Adopting a syntactic approach, Andreas Trotzke provides a detailed account of all the main types of non-canonical questions - in situ questions, declarative questions, exclamatory questions - from a crosslinguistic perspective. Teasing apart emphasis and illocutionary force, he generalizes the role of emotional intensity and views emphatic word order as the expression of a propositional attitude that does not affect the illocutionary level. Interestingly, his demonstration encompasses the discourse effects of non-canonical questions, which are possibly used either as first moves or as second moves via pragmatic inferences. The book is a valuable addition to the literature on questions and non-canonicity, providing a wealth of information on indirect and mixed speech acts, and on the syntax-pragmatics interface.