On Negative "Yes/No" Questions  

Oleh:

Romero, Maribel ; Han, Chung-Hye

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics and Philosophy=> ada di SpringerLink 1997(vol.1) - Mutakhir; JSTOR vol. 27 no. 5 (Oct. 2004), page 609-658.
Fulltext: Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 609-658.pdf (4.95MB)

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Preposed negation yes/no (yn)-questions like Doesn't John drink? neces sarily carry the implicature that the speaker thinks John drinks, whereas non-preposed negation yn-questions like Does John not drink? do not necessarily trigger this implicature. Furthermore, preposed negation yn-questions have a reading "double-checking" p and a reading "double-checking" -p, as in Isn't Jane coming too? and in Isn't Jane coming either? respectively. We present other yn-questions that raise parallel implicatures and argue that, in all the cases, the presence of an epistemic conversational operator VERUM derives the existence and content of the implicature as well as the p/-p-ambiguity.

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