This article provides an account of the distribution and interpretation of POLARITY
PARTICLES in responses, starting with yes and no in English, and then extending the …

This article presents an account of the semantic content and conventional discourse effects
of a range of sentence types in English, namely falling declaratives, polar interrogatives and …

Although the following polar question forms raise the same issue, the positive question Is
Jane coming?, the low negation question Is Jane not coming?, and the high negation …

The paper outlines the analysis of certain question types in the Commit‐ment Space
framework, as presented in Krifka (2015). The two basic ideas are: Assertions and most …

Like other epistemic activities, inquiry seems to be governed by norms. Some have argued
that one such norm forbids us from believing the answer to a question and inquiring into it at …

Different polar question forms (eg, Do you/Do you not/Don't you/Really? Do you... have a
car?) are not equally appropriate in all situations. The present experiments investigate which …

This dissertation proposes a novel approach to tracking not-at-issue contributions to
discourse by bringing together several strands of research concerning evidentiality …

When a speaker wants to ask a polar question in English, they face a choice between a bevy
of different possible forms. While some of these differ dramatically in form (eg rising …

This paper proposes an analysis of the unfocused and focused discourse particle uses of
doch in terms of questions under discussion. The particle doch is analyzed as signaling that …

Work by Sudo (2013) and Gyuris (2017) has shown that the bias of polar interrogatives
varies both cross-linguistically as well as-in languages that possess more than one …