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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2015

Two kinds of answers to yes-no questions in Czech and Spanish.

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This paper deals with two types of answers to polar questions: polarity-based and truth based questions (see Pope 1972). I show that languages that typically behave as polarity-based languages, like e.g. Spanish and Czech, also possess truth-based answers. This can be in particular seen in answers to negative questions. I argue that this is due to the fact that there are two types of negative questions: negative questions with pleonastic negation that behave as positive questions, and "true" negative questions that convey a negative presupposed assertion. Only the latter receive a truth-based answer. I then propose that particles in polarity-based answers express absolute polarity, while particles in truth-based answers express relative polarity to the extent that they (dis)confirm the presupposed assertion conveyed by the question. Truth-based answers to positive questions are also possible, but they are identical at surface to polarity-based answers.

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hal-01132668 , version 1 (17-03-2015)

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Hana Gruet-Skrabalova. Two kinds of answers to yes-no questions in Czech and Spanish.. Gordejuela Senosiáin, A., Izquierdo Alegría, D., Jiménez Berrio, F., De Lucas Vicente, A. & M. Casado Velarde. Lenguas, lenguaje y lingüística. Contribuciones des de la Lingüística General., pp.217-228, 2015. ⟨hal-01132668⟩

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