Ignorance and incompleteness
The instrumental model of talking : how to talk about talk
Open questions, confirmation questions, and how to choose
Which sentence-type to use when asking them
Quantifiers, wh-expressions, and manners of interpretation
Syntactic structure
On the questioning speech-acts and the kinds of ignorance they
Address.
Asking questions : using meaningful structures to imply ignorance by Robert Fiengo. ISBN 9780199208418. Published by Oxford University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.