On the Anaphoric Nature of Particle Responses to the Polar Questions in English and Korean
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Across languages, polarity particles like yes and no alone can be used as responses to the polar (yes-no) questions. This paper offers a discourse-based account of issues concerning the distribution and interpretation of such particles in English and Korean. Arguing against syntax-based analyses, it argues that polarity particles are anaphoric in nature and their interpretation is determined by the antecedent evoked by the context. The paper also suggests that the parametric differences between the two different types of answering system, the polarity-based system (e.g., English) and the truth-based system (e.g., Korean), do not have to do with any syntactic structures of negation or NegP, but they have to do with the anaphoric nature of the particles. The stand-alone yes-no particles in English refer to the nucleus meaning of the proposition evoked from the question-under-discussion while the particles in Korean refer to the propositional meaning including the quantification information of negation.
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Across languages, polarity particles like yes and no alone can be used as responses to the polar (yes-no) questions. This paper offers a discourse-based account of issues concerning the distribution and interpretation of such particles in English and Korean. Arguing against syntax-based analyses, it argues that polarity particles are anaphoric in nature and their interpretation is determined by the antecedent evoked by the context. The paper also suggests that the parametric differences between the two different types of answering system, the polarity-based system (e.g., English) and the truth-based system (e.g., Korean), do not have to do with any syntactic structures of negation or NegP, but they have to do with the anaphoric nature of the particles. The stand-alone yes-no particles in English refer to the nucleus meaning of the proposition evoked from the question-under-discussion while the particles in Korean refer to the propositional meaning including the quantification information of negation.
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