Negative polar interrogatives and bias

Brian Reese

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Negative polar interrogatives and bias

Brian Reese

Linguistics

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This paper develops a discourse based approach to negative polar interrogatives (NIs). NIs are subject to more contextual restrictions than their positive counterparts, a fact that has lead some researchers to assign the two types of question distinct denotations. I argue in favor of standard analyses of polar questions, on which positive and negative interrogatives are equivalent. I show a certain subclass of NIs has a complex semantic type due in part to intonational cues and which constrains their contribtion to discourse logical form.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - Joint JSAI 2005 Workshop Post-Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	85-92
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	3540354700, 9783540354703
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11780496_10
State	Published - 2006
Event	Joint JSAI 2005 Workshop on New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - Kitakyushu City, Japan Duration: Jun 13 2005 → Jun 14 2005

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	4012 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	Joint JSAI 2005 Workshop on New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kitakyushu City
Period	6/13/05 → 6/14/05

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Negative polar interrogatives and bias. / Reese, Brian.
New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - Joint JSAI 2005 Workshop Post-Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2006. p. 85-92 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4012 LNAI).

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Reese, B 2006, Negative polar interrogatives and bias. in New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - Joint JSAI 2005 Workshop Post-Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 4012 LNAI, Springer Verlag, pp. 85-92, Joint JSAI 2005 Workshop on New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Kitakyushu City, Japan, 6/13/05. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780496_10

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