On analysing fragments: the case of No?

IF 1.3 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI:10.1515/ling-2022-0096
Phillip Wallage, Wim van der Wurff
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Abstract

This paper addresses the analysis of sentence fragments, specifically the English negative polar response item no. Two main types of synchronic analysis have been proposed for present-day English – one in which yes and no are syntactically inert particles which substitute for a clause, the other in which they are the initial element of an elided clause. Using diachronic data from 15th- to 17th-century English, we argue that the emergence of a novel other-speaker question pattern involving no demonstrates that speakers of early English analysed interrogative polar no as the initial element of a clause with TP-ellipsis. This novel pattern has received little attention in the literature, yet this grammatical innovation is interesting because its emergence demonstrates how diachronic change can be used as a diagnostic for underlying grammatical structure.
关于片段分析:《没有?
本文探讨句子片段的分析,特别是英语中的否定极性反应项目 no。针对当今英语提出了两种主要的同步分析方法--一种方法认为 yes 和 no 是句法上惰性的微粒,可替代分句;另一种方法认为它们是被省略分句的初始元素。通过使用 15 至 17 世纪英语的异时空数据,我们认为,涉及 no 的新颖的其他说话者提问模式的出现表明,早期英语的说话者将疑问句极性的 no 分析为带有 TP-ellipsis 的分句的首元。这种新颖的模式在文献中很少受到关注,但这种语法创新却很有趣,因为它的出现证明了异时变化是如何被用来诊断潜在语法结构的。
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Linguistics
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期刊介绍: Linguistics publishes articles in the traditional subdisciplines of linguistics as well as in neighboring disciplines insofar as these are deemed to be of interest to linguists and other students of natural language. This includes grammar, both functional and formal, with a focus on morphology, syntax, and semantics, pragmatics and discourse, phonetics and phonology, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. The focus may be on one or several languages, but studies with a wide crosslinguistic (typological) coverage are also welcome. The perspective may be synchronic or diachronic. Linguistics also publishes up to two special issues a year in these areas, for which it welcomes proposals.
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