Epistemic bias anti-licenses NPIs in polar questions

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Title:	Epistemic bias anti-licenses NPIs in polar questions
Authors:	ID Trinh, Tue (Author)
Files:	https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/view/33.028 https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/view/33.028
Language:	English
Work type:	Unknown
Typology:	1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
Organization:	UNG - University of Nova Gorica
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
Publication status:	Published
Publication version:	Version of Record
Year of publishing:	2023
Number of pages:	Str. 563-582
PID:	20.500.12556/RUNG-9649
COBISS.SI-ID:	221448195
UDC:	81'1
DOI:	10.3765/724jzm91
NUK URN:	URN:SI:UNG:REP:JGIDJTCY
Publication date in RUNG:	09.01.2025
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Title:	Proceedings of SALT 33, proceedings of the 33rd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference : held at Yale University, May 12-14, 2023,
Place of publishing:	Ithaca
Publisher:	Cornell University
Year of publishing:	2022
COBISS.SI-ID:	221446915
Collection title:	Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory (Online)
Collection ISSN:	2163-5951

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