14
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
1 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

      Interrogative particles in polar questions: the view from Finnish and Turkish

      1
      Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
      Open Library of the Humanities

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisher
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          The strategy used for forming polar questions varies across languages. While in some languages, polar questions are formed using a raising intonation, in others, polar questions are formed using an interrogative particle. This paper focuses on a type of interrogative particles which has not received much attention in the semantic literature. I call these particles polar interrogative particles. On the empirical side, I identify the signature properties of polar interrogative particles, and show that we need to draw a distinction between (at least) three types of interrogative particles cross-linguistically. On the theoretical side, I develop a full-fledged semantic analysis of these particles and of the questions where ther occur. The proposed account contributes to a better understanding of the source of presuppositions in questions and their projection behavior, and of the interaction between different sets of alternatives (namely, question and focus alternatives).

          Related collections

          Most cited references39

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: not found
          • Article: not found

          A theory of focus interpretation

          Mats Rooth (1992)
            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Article: not found

            Information structure in discourse: Towards an integrated formal theory of pragmatics

              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: not found
              • Article: not found

              Syntax and semantics of questions

                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Contributors
                (View ORCID Profile)
                Journal
                Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
                Open Library of the Humanities
                2397-1835
                January 2 2023
                August 16 2023
                : 8
                : 1
                Affiliations
                [1 ]University of Milano-Bicocca
                Article
                10.16995/glossa.6487
                761949c6-4e13-4358-8825-d5a2013f595c
                © 2023

                https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

                History

                Comments

                Comment on this article