Type of Publication: | Contribution to a conference collection |
Publication status: | Published |
URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-19ceclkv5t7la8 |
Author: | Romero, Maribel; Meertens, Erlinde; Beltrama, Andrea |
Year of publication: | 2021 |
Conference: | First Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference, Sep 16, 2020 - Sep 18, 2020, Philadelphia, PA |
Published in: | Proceedings of ELM 1 / Beltrama, Andrea; Schwarz, Florian; Papafragou, Anna (ed.). - Washington, DC : Linguistic Society of America (LSA), 2021. - pp. 249-260. - eISSN 2694-1791 |
DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.3765/elm.1.5026 |
Summary: |
Or not alternative questions like Are you coming or not? give rise to so-called ‘cornering effects’ (Biezma 2009), consisting of two parts: (i) they cannot appear discourse-initially, and (ii) they do not allow for follow-up questions. Building on recent experimental data (Beltrama, Meertens & Romero 2020), the present paper raises problems for current analyses (Biezma 2009, Biezma & Rawlins 2012, 2018), reframes the second part of cornering as not specific to NAQs but as a general constraint on questions in general, and develops a novel proposal for the first part of cornering. The key ingredients of the new proposal are the intrinsic focus structure of or not questions and its effects on discourse trees.
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Subject (DDC): | 400 Philology, Linguistics |
Keywords: | Alternative question; polar question; cornering; focus; polarity; negation; discourse structure |
Link to License: | Attribution 4.0 International |
Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
ROMERO, Maribel, Erlinde MEERTENS, Andrea BELTRAMA, 2021. Or not Alternative Questions, Focus and Discourse Structure. First Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference. Philadelphia, PA, Sep 16, 2020 - Sep 18, 2020. In: BELTRAMA, Andrea, ed., Florian SCHWARZ, ed., Anna PAPAFRAGOU, ed.. Proceedings of ELM 1. Washington, DC:Linguistic Society of America (LSA), pp. 249-260. eISSN 2694-1791. Available under: doi: 10.3765/elm.1.5026
@inproceedings{Romero2021-07-30Alter-57527, title={Or not Alternative Questions, Focus and Discourse Structure}, year={2021}, doi={10.3765/elm.1.5026}, address={Washington, DC}, publisher={Linguistic Society of America (LSA)}, booktitle={Proceedings of ELM 1}, pages={249--260}, editor={Beltrama, Andrea and Schwarz, Florian and Papafragou, Anna}, author={Romero, Maribel and Meertens, Erlinde and Beltrama, Andrea} }
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