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4. How to ask the obvious : a presuppositional account of evidential bias in English yes/no questionsTue Trinh, 2014, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: English can express the basic meaning of a yes/no question in several ways, for example with or without sentential negation, and with or without subject auxiliary inversion. In this paper, we discuss how the presence of contextual clue with respect to one or the other answer to a yes/no question determines which formal variants of the question are felicitous. We then derive these syntax-pragmatics interactions from Heim’s principle of Maximize Presupposition, Stalnaker’s Bridge Principle and Grice’s Maxim of Manner, each formulated in a particular way, together with the assumption that the lexicon of English contains a silent evidential marker which exhibits familiar syntactic and semantic properties. Keywords: question, bias, presupposition, evidential Published in RUNG: 09.01.2025; Views: 285; Downloads: 2
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5. Epistemic bias anti-licenses NPIs in polar questionsTue Trinh, 2023, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: There is general agreement that the distribution of "any" is unrestricted in polar questions. I argue that this is not the case: in contexts where there is epistemic bias in favor of the prejacent of a polar question, the question exhibits the same behavior as a declarative with respect to the licensing of "any". I provide an account for this observation in terms of intervention: epistemic bias forces polar questions to be parsed as having a silent modal E which intervenes between "any" and the question operator "whether" that otherwise licenses "any". Keywords: NPI, questions, bias, modals Published in RUNG: 09.01.2025; Views: 289; Downloads: 4
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6. Even-NPIs in yes/no questionsElena Guerzoni, 2004, original scientific article 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. Keywords: NPIs, minimizers, polar questions, presupposition, negative bias Published in RUNG: 20.02.2024; Views: 1685; Downloads: 3
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7. Introduction to algorithmic governmentRajan Gupta, Saibal K. Pal, scientific monograph Abstract: This book introduces the Algorithmic Government or Government by Algorithm, which refers to authorizing machines in the Public Sector for automated decision-making based on Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and other technologies. It is an emerging concept introduced globally and will be considered revolutionary in the future. The book covers concepts, applications, progress status, and potential use-cases of Algorithmic Government. This book serves as introductory material for the readers from technology, public policy, administration, and management fields. Keywords: algorithmic government, automated decision making, artificial intelligence, public sector, government by algorithms, algorithmic bias Published in RUNG: 02.04.2021; Views: 3984; Downloads: 37
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