Polar interrogatives in Lɛtɛ Discourse

On two varieties of negative polar interrogatives in Japanese

2. Three interpretations of negative polar interrogatives • Ladd (1981) distinguishes two varieties of negative polar interrogatives, which are epistemically biased toward the opposite directions. o the “outside NEG” question: conveys a positive bias; “the speaker believes a proposition P and wants confirmation” o the “inside NEG” question: conveys a negative bias; “the speaker has just inferre...

Matti MiestaMo (Helsinki) POLAR INTERROGATIVES IN URALIC LANGUAGES A TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

The paper surveys the domain of polar interrogation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. An overview of the ways in which polar interrogation is marked in the world’s languages is presented and the encoding of the domain in Uralic languages is examined against this background. All the major types of polar interrogative marking are found in the family. Polar interrogatives...

Interrogatives and Adverbs of Quantification

Interrogatives and Adverbs of Quantiication

Division of Labor in the Interpretation of Declaratives and Interrogatives

This paper presents an account of the semantic content and conventional discourse effects of a range of sentence types in English, namely falling declaratives, polar interrogatives, and certain kinds of rising declaratives and tag interrogatives. The account aims to divide the labor between compositional semantics and conventions of use in a principled way. We argue that falling declaratives an...