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Ključne besede: polar questions, Vietnamese, focus
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Ključne besede: clause-final negation, polar questions, Vietnamese
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Opis: Polar questions in Vietnamese consist of an affirmative sentence followed by a negation particle. Modern Vietnamese has three negation particles, but only two can occur in this function. This note proposes an account for this gap. The account is premised on the analysis of questions as sets of alternatives, and draws on facts of diachronic change gleaned from historical texts.
Ključne besede: polar questions, negation, Vietnamese
Objavljeno v RUNG: 08.01.2025; Ogledov: 572; Prenosov: 2
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Opis: 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.
Ključne besede: NPIs, minimizers, polar questions, presupposition, negative bias
Objavljeno v RUNG: 20.02.2024; Ogledov: 2072; Prenosov: 4
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