Polarity particles in English and Romanian
Polarity particles in English and Romanian
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英语和罗马尼亚语的极性粒子
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2011
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D. Farkas
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D. Farkas
本文对比了英语和罗马尼亚语中“极性助词”的分布和解释。极性助词(英语中的yes，罗马尼亚语中的no，da，nu，ba)出现在对断言、极性疑问句和祈使句做出反应的句子的左边，但不能在出乎意料的上下文中使用。本文在前人工作中提出的语境结构的背景下，分析了这一分布以及两种语言之间的对比，从而使我们能够理解断言、极地疑问句和祈使句在什么意义上构成了一个自然的类别。这里特别值得注意的是，在英语中，yes和no都可以用在其他相同的反应中，以及这些助词在祈使句反应中的分布。
This paper contrasts the distribution and interpretation of ‘polarity particles’ in English and Romanian. Polarity particles ( yes, no in English, da, nu, ba in Romanian) occur at the left edge of utterances that react to assertions, polar questions and imperatives but cannot be used in ‘out of the blue’ contexts. The paper makes sense of this distribution as well as of the contrasts between the two languages against the background of a context structure proposed in earlier work, which allows us to understand in what sense assertions, polar questions and imperatives form a natural class. Of particular interest here are cases where both yes and no can be used in otherwise identical responses in English as well as the distribution of these particles in reactions to imperatives.