Against Low Negation in Japanese Questions

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University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
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Muramatsu, Giulio Ciferri
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This study introduces new data on the Japanese truth-based answering system. I use such new data to compare the empirical coverage of two existing approaches in the literature. A scopal one from Krifka (2013) and a featural one from Servidio et al. (2018). Although their discussion focuses on polarity-based languages, they both suggest that their analysis can be extended to truth-based languages. I show that the former approach, which relies on the scope relation between NegP and TP to capture crosslinguistic variation, fails to account for the fact that Japanese maintains the truth-based system for questions with different negation scope. I further show that a featural approach, which does not refer to structure below the CP-level, can be straightforwardly extended to the novel Japanese data. I further show that a featural analysis fares better with answers to high-negation questions in Japanese and English.

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2023-01-01
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