Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2012

Ellipsis in answers to polar questions in Czech

Ellipse dans les réponses aux questions fermées en tchèque

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In this presentation I discuss the property of Czech to use a finite verb to answer both affirmative and negative polar questions. Following Homberg (2001, 2011), I argue that answers echoing a verb of the question are derived by sentential ellipsis after moving the finite verb or the remnant VP to the Focus projection in CP domain. I also also argue that answering particles always express the polarity of the answer : (i) the affirmative particle can combine with an affirmative verb or with a negative VP, (ii) the negative particle can combine with a negative verb or an affirmative VP.

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hal-00911087 , version 1 (13-02-2026)

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Hana Gruet-Skrabalova. Ellipsis in answers to polar questions in Czech. Topics in the typology of elliptical constructions II,, Jun 2012, Paris, France. ⟨hal-00911087⟩

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