Or not Alternative Questions, Focus and Discourse Structure

Romero, Maribel; Meertens, Erlinde; Beltrama, Andrea

Or not Alternative Questions, Focus and Discourse Structure

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Datum

2021

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BELTRAMA, Andrea, ed., Florian SCHWARZ, ed., Anna PAPAFRAGOU, ed.. Proceedings of ELM 1. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America (LSA), 2021, pp. 249-260. eISSN 2694-1791. Available under: doi: 10.3765/elm.1.5026

Zusammenfassung

Or not alternative questions like Are you coming or not? give rise to so-called ‘cornering effects’ (Biezma 2009), consisting of two parts: (i) they cannot appear discourse-initially, and (ii) they do not allow for follow-up questions. Building on recent experimental data (Beltrama, Meertens & Romero 2020), the present paper raises problems for current analyses (Biezma 2009, Biezma & Rawlins 2012, 2018), reframes the second part of cornering as not specific to NAQs but as a general constraint on questions in general, and develops a novel proposal for the first part of cornering. The key ingredients of the new proposal are the intrinsic focus structure of or not questions and its effects on discourse trees.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

400 Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik

Schlagwörter

Alternative question; polar question; cornering; focus; polarity; negation; discourse structure

Konferenz

First Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference, 16. Sep. 2020 - 18. Sep. 2020, Philadelphia, PA

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ROMERO, Maribel, Erlinde MEERTENS, Andrea BELTRAMA, 2021. Or not Alternative Questions, Focus and Discourse Structure. First Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference. Philadelphia, PA, 16. Sep. 2020 - 18. Sep. 2020. In: BELTRAMA, Andrea, ed., Florian SCHWARZ, ed., Anna PAPAFRAGOU, ed.. Proceedings of ELM 1. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America (LSA), 2021, pp. 249-260. eISSN 2694-1791. Available under: doi: 10.3765/elm.1.5026

BibTex

@inproceedings{Romero2021-07-30Alter-57527,
  year={2021},
  doi={10.3765/elm.1.5026},
  title={Or not Alternative Questions, Focus and Discourse Structure},
  publisher={Linguistic Society of America (LSA)},
  address={Washington, DC},
  booktitle={Proceedings of ELM 1},
  pages={249--260},
  editor={Beltrama, Andrea and Schwarz, Florian and Papafragou, Anna},
  author={Romero, Maribel and Meertens, Erlinde and Beltrama, Andrea}
}

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