We present novel observations about types of questions which occur quite frequently in natural discourse but which have so far remained unanalyzed. These are questions about a question act. We then propose an account which derives the observations. Our account relies crucially on the assumption that speech acts are grammatically represented.

中文翻译：

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离题问题

我们对自然话语中经常出现但迄今为止尚未分析的问题类型提出了新颖的观察。这些是关于问题行为的问题。然后我们提出一个推导观察结果的帐户。我们的解释主要依赖于言语行为是用语法表示的假设。