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Publication details [#3653]

Gazdar, Gerald J.M. 1976. Polarity items in interrogatives - A postscript to Borkin (1971). Language Research 12 (2) : 279–280.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acceptability | expectation | illocution | interrogative1 | negative polarity item

Annotation

It is argued that the acceptability of negative polarity items in interrogatives does not only depend on the assumptions and expectations of the speaker, but also on the illocutionary force of the interrogative sentence.