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Lawler, John M. 1971. Any questions? Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 7 : 163–173.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

expectation | polarity item | presupposition | question

Annotation

Amongst other things, L. adduces evidence for the claim that the occurrence of polarity items in questions depends upon the answer expected, which is clearly dependent on the presuppositions of the question.