Even-NPIs in YES/NO Questions
Even-NPIs in YES/NO Questions
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是/否问题中的偶数 NPI
DOI：
10.1007/s11050-004-8739-0
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发表时间：
2004
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Elena Guerzoni
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作者：
Elena Guerzoni
一个长期存在的难题是，当考虑到负面极性项目对问题解释的影响时，它们似乎分为两个子类别：虽然带有任何和曾经的问题可以用作公正的信息请求，但带有所谓“最小化者”的问题，即像举起手指和最微弱的想法这样的习语，总是偏向于否定答案（参见Ladusaw 1979）。本文重点关注是/否问题，提出了这个难题的解决方案。具体来说，它表明，凭借包含偶数（参见 Heim 1984），最小化器与任何最小化器不同，会触发一个预设，从而将问题的可能答案集减少到包含否定答案的单例。
It has been a long-standing puzzle that Negative Polarity Items appear to split into two subvarieties when their effect on the interpretation of questions is taken into account: while questions with any and ever can be used as unbiased requests of information, questions with so-called `minimizers', i.e. idioms like lift a finger and the faintest idea, are always biased towards a negative answer (cf. Ladusaw 1979). Focusing on yes/no questions, this paper presents a solution to this puzzle. Specifically it is shown that in virtue of containing even (cf. Heim 1984), minimizers, unlike any, trigger a presupposition, which reduces the set of the possible answers to a question to the singleton containing the negative answer.