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4. Cause-final negation is sentential negation: an analysis Vietnamese polar question : lecture at the 4th Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning, the Connectives in logic and language, March 30, 2024, Tsinghua University, Beijing, ChinaTue Trinh, 2024, unpublished conference contribution Keywords: clause-final negation, polar questions, Vietnamese Published in RUNG: 13.01.2025; Views: 668; Downloads: 2
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8. 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: 2201; Downloads: 4
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