A note on negation, focus, and bias in Greek polar questions
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.The present squib explores the hypothesis that Greek distinguishes between low negation polar questions and high negation polar questions in a way parallel to languages like English. Building on a demonstrable bi-partite distinction of Greek negative polar questions involving narrow focus, I show that (i) Greek questions do display two negative variants, although not necessarily mapped onto distinct surface word orders, and (ii) the high negation variant has richer syntactic and LF-structure.
Author: Evripidis Tsiakmakis
Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $551
OpenAlex ID: W4414321171