{"id":13708,"date":"2020-09-21T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13708"},"modified":"2020-09-20T11:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T15:54:51","slug":"linglunch-9-24-boer-fu-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/09\/21\/linglunch-9-24-boer-fu-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LingLunch 9\/24 - Boer Fu (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Boer Fu (MIT)<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong>Negation Scoping and Focus in Mandarin Biased Questions<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>Thursday, September 24th, 12:30pm - 1:50pm<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<br class=\"\" \/><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Abstract: <\/strong>The role of negation in biased yes\/no questions has been under much discussion in the literature. I present evidence from the 4-way readings of Mandarin negative yes\/no questions, which support Romero &amp; Han\u0092s (2004) VERUM operator account. A question like (1) can have 4 different readings, depending on the placement of focus and boundary tone.<\/p>\n<p>(1) ta bu\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 chi niurou ma<br clear='none'\/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 he NEG eat beef\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MA<br clear='none'\/>\n(a) \u0091Doesn\u0092t he eat beef?\u0092 Focus on \u0091eat\u0092, H% Biased question<br clear='none'\/>\n(b) \u0091Does he not eat beef?\u0092 Focus on NEG, H% Surprised question<br clear='none'\/>\n(c) \u0091He eats beef.\u0092 Focus on \u0091eat\u0092, L% Rhetorical question<br clear='none'\/>\n(d) \u0091He doesn\u0092t eat beef.\u0092 Focus on NEG, L% Negative dogmatic assertion<\/p>\n<p>The contrast between readings (a) and (b) has its parallel in English biased questions, the Outside-NEG reading vs. Inside-NEG reading (Ladd 1981). Romero &amp; Han (2004) analyzes the contrast to stem from a difference in scoping between negation and VERUM, a silent operator. In this talk, I show that in Mandarin, VERUM can be pronounced at PF as <em>?shi<\/em>, and displays overt scoping with negation that confirms Romero &amp; Han\u0092s prediction of the two readings. And when the Mandarin VERUM is optionally silent, focus can cue the negation scoping at LF, via association with focus (Rooth 1985).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Boer Fu (MIT) Title: Negation Scoping and Focus in Mandarin Biased Questions Time: Thursday, September 24th, 12:30pm - 1:50pm Abstract: The role of negation in biased yes\/no questions has been under much discussion in the literature. I present evidence from the 4-way readings of Mandarin negative yes\/no questions, which support Romero &amp; Han\u0092s (2004) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13711,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708\/revisions\/13711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}