Negative Inquisitiveness and Alternatives-Based Negation

Robin Cooper (1) , Jonathan Ginzburg (2, 3)

1 GU - Göteborgs Universitet = University of Gothenburg
2 LabEx EFL - LabEx Empirical Foundations of Linguistics
3 CLILLAC-ARP (EA_3967) - Centre de Linguistique Inter-langues, de Lexicologie, de Linguistique Anglaise et de Corpus

We propose some fundamental requirements for the treatment of negative particles, positive/negative polar questions, and negative propositions, as they occur in dialogue with questions. We offer a view of negation that combines aspects of alternative semantics, intu-itionist negation, and situation semantics. We formalize the account in TTR (a version of type theory with records) [6, 8]. Central to our claim is that negative and positive propositions should be distinguished and that in order to do this they should be defined in terms of types rather than possible worlds. This is in contrast to [10] where negative propositions are identified in terms of the syntactic or morphological properties of the sentences which introduce them.

Mots clés: negation; dialogue; interrogatives; type theory

Domaines: Linguistique

Robin Cooper, Jonathan Ginzburg. Negative Inquisitiveness and Alternatives-Based Negation. Logic, Language and Meaning, Dec 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands. ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_4⟩. ⟨hal-01138026⟩