| Title: | Even-NPIs in yes/no questions |
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| Authors: | ID Guerzoni, Elena (Author) |
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| Files: |  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11050-004-8739-0
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Unknown |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | UNG - University of Nova Gorica
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| Abstract: | It has been a long-standing puzzle that Negative Polarity Items appear to split into two subvarieties when their effect on the interpretation of questions is taken into account: while questions with any and ever can be used as unbiased requests of information, questions with so-called `minimizers', i.e. idioms like lift a finger and the faintest idea, are always biased towards a negative answer (cf. Ladusaw 1979). Focusing on yes/no questions, this paper presents a solution to this puzzle. Specifically it is shown that in virtue of containing even (cf. Heim 1984), minimizers, unlike any, trigger a presupposition, which reduces the set of the possible answers to a question to the singleton containing the negative answer. |
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| Keywords: | NPIs, minimizers, polar questions, presupposition, negative bias |
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| Publication date: | 01.01.2004 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2004 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 319-343 |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 12, issue 4 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/RUNG-8867  |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 186213123 |
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| UDC: | 81'1 |
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| ISSN on article: | 0925-854X |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s11050-004-8739-0 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UNG:REP:3XHXBQWP |
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| Publication date in RUNG: | 20.02.2024 |
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