Notes on Yes as a Rejoinder and a Polar Answer
0
조회
0
다운로드
2
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This paper discusses certain properties of yes used as a rejoinder (to statements) and a polar answer (to yes-no questions). Holmberg (2016) suggests that the rejoinder yes may have a dual nature: It can have properties of right or true, or it can be the same yes used in answers. We verify the latter possibility by showing that the rejoinder yes can be followed by an affirmative sentence, thereby entering into a head-to-head relation. We also discuss yes used as a polar answer and attempt to resolve a potential problem arising from Holmberg’s polar answer system. We propose that the relevant construction disguises elliptical constructions, permitting a head-to-head relation inside the elliptical site, as desired. We also discuss an intricate interplay of negation and emphatic do in answers and show that it lends support in favor of Holmberg’s (2016) claim that the two uses of negation play a crucial role in licensing the answers involving yes.
Abstract
This paper discusses certain properties of yes used as a rejoinder (to statements) and a polar answer (to yes-no questions). Holmberg (2016) suggests that the rejoinder yes may have a dual nature: It can have properties of right or true, or it can be the same yes used in answers. We verify the latter possibility by showing that the rejoinder yes can be followed by an affirmative sentence, thereby entering into a head-to-head relation. We also discuss yes used as a polar answer and attempt to resolve a potential problem arising from Holmberg’s polar answer system. We propose that the relevant construction disguises elliptical constructions, permitting a head-to-head relation inside the elliptical site, as desired. We also discuss an intricate interplay of negation and emphatic do in answers and show that it lends support in favor of Holmberg’s (2016) claim that the two uses of negation play a crucial role in licensing the answers involving yes.
참고문헌 (28)
- Chomsky, Noam, "Syntax: An International Handbook of Contemporary Research. Vol. 1", pp.506~569 (1993), Walter de Gruyter
- Citko, Barbara, "The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism", pp.119~142 (2011), Oxford University Press
- Farkas, Donka F., "On reacting to assertions and polar questions", Journal of semantics, 27(1), pp.81~118 (2010)
- Goodhue, Daniel, "Intonation, yes and no", Glossa: a Journal of General Linguistics, 3(1), pp.5~ (2018)[DOI]
- Gutzmann, Daniel, "Verum focus is verum, not focus: Cross-linguistic evidence", Glossa: a Journal of General Linguistics, 5(1), pp.1~48 (2020)
- Halliday, Michale, "Cohesion in English" (1976), Longman
- Holmberg, Anders, "The syntax of answers to polar questions in English and Swedish", Lingua, 128, pp.31~50 (2013)
- Holmberg, Anders, "The Syntax of Yes and No" (2016), Oxford University Press
- Höhle, Tilman N, "Informationsstruktur und GrammatikJoachim", pp.112~141 (1992), Westdeutscher Verlag
- Kramer, Ruth, "Polarity particles: an ellipsis account", Proceedings of North East Linguistics Society (NELS), 39, pp.479~492 (2011)
- Krifka, Manfred, "Response particles as propositional anaphors", Semantics and linguistic theory, 23, pp.1~18 (2013)
- Laka, Itziar, "Negation in Syntax: On the Nature of Functional Categories and projections", Ph.D., pp.1990
- Laka, Itziar, "On Syntax of Negation" (1994), Routledge
- McCawley, James D., "The Syntactic Phenomena of English" (1998), University of Chicago Press
- Merchant, Jason, "The Syntax of Silence" (2001), Oxford University Press
- Merchant, Jason, "Fragments and ellipsis", Linguistics and Philosophy, 27(6), pp.661~738 (2004)
- 박범식, "Contrastive Negation, Emphatic do and Left-Edge Ellipsis", 생성문법연구, 31(3), pp.451~467 (2021), 한국생성문법학회[DOI]
- Postal, Paul Martin, "Three Investigations of Extraction" (1998), MIT Press
- Postal, Paul Martin, "On Raising: One Rule of English Grammar and its Theoretical Implications" (1974), MIT Press
- Postal, Paul Martin, "Skeptical Linguistic Essays" (2004), Oxford University Press
- Ross, John R., "Constraints on Variables in Syntax", Ph.D., pp.1967
- Stalnaker, Robert, "Common Ground", Linguistics and Philosophy, 25, pp.701~721 (2002)
- Vries, Mark de, "On multidominance and linearization", Biolinguistics, 3, pp.344~403 (2009)
- Wilder, Chris, "Right Node Raising and the LCA", Proceedings on the Eighteenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp.586~598 (1999)
- Wilder, Chris, "Topics in Ellipsis", pp.229~258 (2008), Cambridge University Press
- Yabushita, Katsuhiko, "Why do Japanese hai and iie not behave like English yes and no all the way? Consequences of the non-sentential operation of the Japanese negative morpheme nai", Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 23(1), pp.59~74 (1998)
- Zeijlstra, Hedde, "Sentential Negation and Negative Noncord", Ph.D., pp.2004
- Zeijlstra, Hedde, "Modal concord", Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 17, pp.317~332 (2007)