The aim of the paper is to sketch a unified account of the denotation of talán âperhapsâ in Hungarian, which appears in declaratives and polar interrogatives encoding assertions and questions. It is suggested for the first time that talán is not only an inferential or conjectural evidential, but also makes reference to the current question under discussion. The account explains some interpretational effects of talán, including the absence of the âinterrogative flipâ or the obligatory rhetorical question readings of polar interrogatives without constituent focus, which are discussed here for the first time.
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