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Yes or No, or how to answer a negative question
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| Author | Gruet-Skrabalova, Hana |
| Abstract | This paper deals with answers to negative yes-no questions, focusing on data from Czech. It is shown that answering particles can express both positive and negative answers to negative questions, but that their choice is not free. Several pieces of evidence are discussed in order to show that the use of the particles depends on the interpretation of negation in the question, which can either be expletive or true. This semantic distinction is furthermore tightly linked to the syntactic position of the negation, according to which we distinguish between negative interrogative clauses and negative declarative clauses used as questions. An analysis in terms of absolute and relative polarity is proposed to account for the mixed behaviour of answering particles: particles express absolute polarity in answers to interrogative questions, whose polarity is open, and relative polarity in answers to declarative questions, whose polarity has been already specified. |
| Ending Page | 142 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | 127 |
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| ISSN | 00243922 |
| e-ISSN | 2350420X |
| DOI | 10.4312/linguistica.56.1.127-142 |
| Journal | Linguistica |
| Volume Number | 56 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts |
| Publisher Date | 2016-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Czech polarity yes-no questions and answers answering particles negation scco Cognitive science Linguistics |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Linguistics and Language |
