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(Negated) Fragment answers as a response| title | (Negated) Fragment answers as a response |
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| start_date | 2023/06/20 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Bât. Olympe de Gouges |
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| summary | Positive as well as negative fragment answers to wh-questions consist of a non-sentential XP but convey the same propositional content as fully sentential answers (e.g., A: What do they want? B: Money. A: What was his motive? B: Not money.) Fragment answers thus also display incongruous mappings from what appear to be syntactically less than sentential structures to the semantically propositional character (Merchant 2005, Culicover & Jackendoff 2005, Ginzburg & Sag 2000). This lecture evaluates the prevalent minimalist perspective that postulates full-sentential source sentences for positive as well as negative fragment answers in natural languages. The lecture shows that when taking into consideration a wider range of empirical data as well as the results of grammatical judgement experiments, positing putative sentential sources run into many potential problems. The lecture, supporting a direct compositionality approach for positive and negative fragment answers, argues that the complete syntax of fragment is just the categorial phrase projection of the fragment itself. |
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| responsibles | Abeillé |
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| submitted | published | | 2023/05/30 14:21 UTC |
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