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The Syntax of Yes and No (Hardcover)
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The Syntax of Yes and No (Hardcover)
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This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no
questions and their answers, drawing on data from a wide range of
languages with particular focus on English, Finnish, Swedish, Thai,
and Chinese. There are broadly two types of answer to yes-no
questions: those that employ particles such as 'yes' and 'no' (as
found in English) and those that echo a part of the question,
usually the finite verb, with or without negation (as found in
Finnish). The latter are uncontroversially derived by ellipsis,
while the former have been claimed to be clause substitutes. Anders
Holmberg argues instead that even answers that employ particles are
complete sentences, derived by ellipsis from full sentential
expressions, and that the two types share essential syntactic
properties. The book also examines the related cross-linguistic and
intralinguistic variation observed in answers to negative questions
such as 'does he not drink coffee?', whereby 'yes' in one language
appears to correspond to 'no' in another. The book illustrates how
a seemingly trivial phenomenon can have the most wide-ranging
consequences for theories of language, and will be of interest not
only to theoretical linguists but also to students and scholars of
typological and descriptive linguistics.
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