A note on negation, focus, and bias in Greek polar questions
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.
Authors
- Evripidis Tsiakmakis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6799-7894)
Institutions
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Glossa a journal of general linguistics
- Published
- 2025-09-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.18163
- Primary Topic
- Library Science and Information Systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00