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.

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Glossa a journal of general linguistics
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2025-09-18
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https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.18163
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Library Science and Information Systems
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A note on negation, focus, and bias in Greek polar questions

Evripidis Tsiakmakis
Glossa a journal of general linguistics
Library Science and Information Systems
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A note on negation, focus, and bias in Greek polar questions

Evripidis Tsiakmakis
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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.

Glossa a journal of general linguisticsVol. 10(1)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
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