{"id":3114,"date":"2011-10-12T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2011-10-11T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T15:20:08","slug":"linguistics-colloquium-1014-anders-holmberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/10\/12\/linguistics-colloquium-1014-anders-holmberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics Colloquium 10\/14 - Anders Holmberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPEAKER: Anders Holmberg &#8212; Newcastle University<br clear='none'\/>\nTIME: 3:30 PM, Friday 10\/14<br clear='none'\/>\nLOCATION: 32-141<br clear='none'\/>\nTITLE: On the Syntax of Yes and No in English<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The paper discusses systems of answering yes\/no- questions in general,<br clear='none'\/>\nas background to a discussion of two theories articulating the idea<br clear='none'\/>\nthat answers to yes\/no-questions are derived by propositional ellipsis<br clear='none'\/>\nunder identity with the proposition of the question. The first theory<br clear='none'\/>\nis articulated by Kramer & Rawlins (2009,2010), the other is based on<br clear='none'\/>\nHolmberg (2001, 2007). The paper focuses on a particularly vexing case<br clear='none'\/>\nof answers to negative questions in English: the ambiguity of yes as<br clear='none'\/>\nan answer to negative questions with the negation not (called<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0091negative neutralization\u0092 by Kramer & Rawlins). It is argued that the<br clear='none'\/>\nambiguity is due to the structural ambiguity of not, as either<br clear='none'\/>\nnegating the sentence or constituent-negating the predicate. An<br clear='none'\/>\nargument is also presented  that affirmative declaratives have an<br clear='none'\/>\naffirmative polarity head, a counterpart of the negative polarity head<br clear='none'\/>\nof negative declaratives.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPEAKER: Anders Holmberg &#8212; Newcastle University TIME: 3:30 PM, Friday 10\/14 LOCATION: 32-141 TITLE: On the Syntax of Yes and No in English Abstract: The paper discusses systems of answering yes\/no- questions in general, as background to a discussion of two theories articulating the idea that answers to yes\/no-questions are derived by propositional ellipsis under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3118,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}